David Hernandez (poet)
Introduction '''David Hernandez''' (born in 1971) is an American poet and novelist. Most recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
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 ''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''  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.
Awards * 2011 National Endowment for the Arts 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"