Daisy Hernández | |
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Born | May 23, 1975 |
Occupation | Writer/editor |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
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Daisy Hernández (born May 23, 1975) 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. [1] Hernández is an assistant professor at Northwestern University.
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. [2] Conservatives critiqued the piece for its use of the word gringo. [3] [4] [5]
"Becoming a Black Man", [6] 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". [7] [8] 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. [9]
Hernández's latest book, The Kissing Bug, documents the prevalence of Chagas disease in the United States. [10] [11] 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". [12]
Daisy Hernández | |
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Born | May 23, 1975 |
Occupation | Writer/editor |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Website | |
www |
Daisy Hernández (born May 23, 1975) 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. [1] Hernández is an assistant professor at Northwestern University.
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. [2] Conservatives critiqued the piece for its use of the word gringo. [3] [4] [5]
"Becoming a Black Man", [6] 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". [7] [8] 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. [9]
Hernández's latest book, The Kissing Bug, documents the prevalence of Chagas disease in the United States. [10] [11] 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". [12]