David Hernandez (poet)

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David Hernandez
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Born1971
Burbank, California
Notable awards
  • Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (2005)
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry (2011)

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]

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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

Works

Poetry Books

YA Novels

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References

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  2. 1 2 National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived November 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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  8. "Los Gamboa". cuevas-mohr.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  9. "David Hernandez". Davidahernandez.com. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2014-05-03.