David Hernandez (poet)
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[2]
- 2010 Kathyrn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
- 2005 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Works
[edit]Poetry Books
[edit]- 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
[edit]- No More Us for You, HarperCollins (2009)
- Suckerpunch, HarperCollins (2008)
References
[edit]- ^ "David Hernandez Author from the United States of America". Who is Log. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ a b National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived November 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Author Details". Pshares.org. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ "TMR: David Hernandez". Archived from the original on 2011-10-01.
- ^ "The Kenyan Review". Archived from the original on 2008-11-22.
- ^ "Shade 2006". UPNE. 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ "AGNI Online: Back Issues". Bu.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-05-03. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ "Los Gamboa". cuevas-mohr.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ "David Hernandez". Davidahernandez.com. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
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