Ms. Chávez is a Fronteriza writer, bookseller, and activist. She is founder of Libros Para El Viaje, a Refugee, Migrant and Asylum-seeker book donation initiative that has donated over 27, 000 books to families and children since the summer of 2018. Chávez is the owner of Casa Camino Real Bookstore in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is the author of The King and Queen of Comezón and Loving Pedro Infante, among other works. Chávez and her husband, photographer Daniel Zolinsky, are working on Museo de La Gente, an archival resource and cultural center to be located in the Mesquite Historical District on the Camino Real.
https://www.borderservantcorps.org/libros-para-el-viaje
Interview with Ramona Gault, September 2020: https://www.ramonagault.com/blognewmexicoauthors/new-mexico-author-q-amp-a-denise-chavez
Interview with Border Lore, 2016: https://borderlore.org/written-words-instruments/
Interview with the Stiletto Gang, 2017: https://thestilettogang.blogspot.com/2017/09/interview-of-chicana-icon-denise-chavez.html