Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández
Hernández in 2025
Born1975 (1975)[1]
OccupationWriter/editor
Writing career
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.daisyhernandez.com

Daisy Hernández 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.[2] 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.[3] Conservatives critiqued the piece for its use of the word gringo.[4][5][6]

"Becoming a Black Man",[7] 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".[8][9] 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.[10]

Hernández's 2021 book, The Kissing Bug, documents the prevalence of Chagas disease in the United States.[11][12] 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".[13] She was a finalist at the 2021 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in US for her book - The Kissing Bug.[14]

Books

  • 2002 Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, Seal Press (co-edited with Bushra Rehman)
  • 2014 A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, Beacon Press
  • 2021 The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease, TinHouse
  • 2026 Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth, Penguin Random House

References

  1. ↑ "Daisy Hernandez '97: Sharing Her Life Story". William Paterson University. 2014. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  2. ↑ Wade, Julie Marie (December 26, 2014). "The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández". Rumpus. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ Hernandez, Daisy. "Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief". NPR.org. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ Shepard, Alicia C. "Is the Word "Gringo" Offensive Or Just Distracting?". NPR.org. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ "NPR injects racial vitriol into stories," O'Reilly Factor Flash, Jan. 17, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Is 'Gringo' Like The N-Word? NPR Under Attack," The Young Turks, Jan. 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ Hernández, Daisy (January 7, 2008). "Becoming a Black Man". ColorLines. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ "GLAAD Media Awards". GLAAD. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015.
  9. ↑ "GLAAD announces TV, film noms," Variety.com, Jan. 26, 2009.
  10. ↑ "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app". Windy City Times, May 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ Hernández, Daisy (2021). The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease. TinHouse. ISBN 978-1-951142-52-0.
  12. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino (May 27, 2021). "A deadly bug bite, a family's heartache". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  13. ↑ "The National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the inaugural selected titles for the Science + Literature program". National Book Foundation. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
  14. ↑ "The New American Voices Award". Institute for Immigration Research. Retrieved November 7, 2024.

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