David Hernandez (poet)
American poet
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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.
- Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (2005)
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry (2011)
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| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) Burbank, California |
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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
- 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[9]
Literary awards
| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 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)