Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández is a writer and editor in the United States. She coedited the essay collection Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002), and in 2014 published A Cup of Water Under My Bed, a memoir about growing up queer in a Colombian-Cuban family.^[2] Hernández is an assistant professor at Northwestern University.

Born1975 (1975)^[1]

OccupationWriter/editor

LanguageEnglish

NationalityAmerican

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Daisy Hernández
Hernández in 2025
Born	1975 (1975)[1]
Occupation	Writer/editor
Language	English
Nationality	American
Website
www.daisyhernandez.com

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From 2008 to 2010, Hernández edited ColorLines, where she began working as a senior writer in 2004. On January 12, 2011, the NPR program All Things Considered broadcast her commentary on the 2011 Arizona shooting.^[3] Conservatives critiqued the piece for its use of the word gringo.^[4][5][6]

"Becoming a Black Man",^[7] her article about the experiences of black trans men, was nominated in 2009 for a GLAAD Media Award in the category of "Outstanding Magazine Article".^[8][9] In 2015, she was named one of the two winners of the Lambda Literary Foundation's "Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award" at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards.^[10]

Hernández's 2021 book, The Kissing Bug, documents the prevalence of Chagas disease in the United States.^[11][12] In February 2022, The Kissing Bug was one of the three books selected for the inaugural version of Science + Literature program created by the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to highlight "diversity of voices in contemporary science and technology writing".^[13] She was a finalist at the 2021 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in US for her book - The Kissing Bug.^[14]