David Hernandez (poet)

This article is about the American writer born in 1971. For other individuals with the same name, see David Hernandez (disambiguation).
David Hernandez
Photograph of David Hernandez
Born1971 (age 54–55)
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. He was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Life

His poems have appeared in FIELD, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares,[2] The Missouri Review,[3] Kenyon Review,[4] TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Shade,[5] Poetry Daily, AGNI,[6] 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[7] 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.[8]

Awards and honors

Honors

Literary awards

Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
2005 Always Danger Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards — Won
2009 Suckerpunch Best Fiction for Young Adults — Selection
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers — Selection
2010 Hoodwinked Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry — Won
2010 No More Us for You Best Fiction for Young Adults — Selection
2022 Hello I Must Be Going: Poems National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry Finalist

Works

Poetry collections

  • A House Waiting for Music, Tupelo Press (2003)
  • Always Danger, Southern Illinois University Press (2006)
  • Hoodwinked, Sarabande Books (2011)
  • Dear, Sincerely, University of Pittsburgh Press (2016)
  • Hello I Must Be Going (2022)

YA Novels

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

References

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