David Hernandez
Photograph of David Hernandez
Born1971
Burbank, California
Notable awards
  • Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (2005)
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry (2011)

David Hernandez (born in 1971)[1] is an American poet and novelist. Most recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[2]

Life

His poems have appeared in FIELD, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares,[3] The Missouri Review,[4] Kenyon Review,[5] TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Shade,[6] Poetry Daily, AGNI,[7] Epoch, Iowa Review, Pleiades. His drawings have appeared in Indiana Review.

His father Jaime A. Hernandez, migrated from Colombia to the United States at a young age; his mother Nancy Cornejo is originally from Chile. David is the descendant of a long line of poets dating back to the 1870s, the Gamboa family, and he was included in the book Los Gamboa: una Dinastía de Poetas [8] published in 2008. The book has five of David's poems translated in Spanish by the book's author, Hugo Cuevas-Mohr.

He teaches poetry at California State University, Long Beach, and teaches creative writing at California State University, Fullerton. He lives in Long Beach, California.[9]

Awards

Works

Poetry Books

  • Dear, Sincerely, University of Pittsburgh Press (2016)
  • Hoodwinked, Sarabande Books (2011)
  • Always Danger, Southern Illinois University Press (2006)
  • A House Waiting for Music, Tupelo Press (2003)

YA Novels

  • No More Us for You, HarperCollins (2009)
  • Suckerpunch, HarperCollins (2008)

References

  1. ↑ "David Hernandez Author from the United States of America". Who is Log. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived November 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Author Details". Pshares.org. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
  4. ↑ "TMR: David Hernandez". Archived from the original on 2011-10-01.
  5. ↑ "The Kenyan Review". Archived from the original on 2008-11-22.
  6. ↑ "Shade 2006". UPNE. 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
  7. ↑ "AGNI Online: Back Issues". Bu.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-05-03. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
  8. ↑ "Los Gamboa". cuevas-mohr.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  9. ↑ "David Hernandez". Davidahernandez.com. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
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