David Hernandez (poet) explained

David Hernandez
Birth Date:	1971
Birth Place:	Burbank, California

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

• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[2]
• 2010 Kathyrn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• 2005 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

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)

External links

• "Author's website"

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Hernandez Author from the United States of America . Who is Log. 25 February 2013.
2. http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows
3. Web site: Author Details . Pshares.org . 2014-05-03.
4. Web site: TMR: David Hernandez. https://web.archive.org/web/20111001002211/http://missourireview.com/content/dynamic/author_detail.php?author_id=41. 2011-10-01.
5. Web site: The Kenyan Review. https://web.archive.org/web/20081122042524/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/spring08/hernandez.php. 2008-11-22.
6. Web site: Shade 2006 . UPNE . 2014-02-21 . 2014-05-03.
7. Web site: AGNI Online: Back Issues . Bu.edu . 2014-05-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140503225607/http://www.bu.edu/agni/back-issues.html . 2014-05-03 . dead .
8. Web site: Los Gamboa . cuevas-mohr.com . 2020-04-21.
9. Web site: David Hernandez . Davidahernandez.com . 2013-02-20 . 2014-05-03.