David Hernandez (born in 1971) is an American

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and novelist. Most recently, he was awarded a 2011

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Fellowship for Poetry.National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows

Life

His poems have appeared in ''FIELD'', ''The Threepenny Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''Kenyon Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Shade'', ''Poetry Daily'', ''AGNI'', ''Epoch'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Pleiades''. His drawings have appeared in ''

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''. His father Jaime A. Hernandez, migrated from

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to the

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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'' published in 2008. The book has five of David's poems translated in

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by the book's author, Hugo Cuevas-Mohr. He teaches poetry at

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, and teaches creative writing at

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. He lives in

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Awards

* 2011

Fellowship for Poetry. * 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)

References

External links

"Author's website"
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