David Hernandez (poet)

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]

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

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. 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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