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Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández

English writer and editor

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.

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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]

Books

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

References

  1. [1]
    Wade, Julie Marie (26 December 2014). "The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández". Rumpus. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. [2]
    Hernandez, Daisy. "Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief". NPR.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  3. [3]
    Shepard, Alicia C. "Is the Word "Gringo" Offensive Or Just Distracting?". NPR.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  4. [4]
    "NPR injects racial vitriol into stories," O'Reilly Factor Flash, Jan. 17, 2011.
  5. [5]
    "Is 'Gringo' Like The N-Word? NPR Under Attack," The Young Turks, Jan. 19, 2011.
  6. [6]
    Hernández, Daisy (7 January 2008). "Becoming a Black Man". ColorLines. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  7. [7]
    "GLAAD Media Awards". GLAAD. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27.
  8. [8]
    "GLAAD announces TV, film noms," Variety.com, Jan. 26, 2009.
  9. [9]
    "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app". Windy City Times, May 12, 2015.
  10. [10]
    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.
  11. [11]
    Iglesias, Gabino (May 27, 2021). "A deadly bug bite, a family's heartache". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  12. [12]
    "The National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the inaugural selected titles for the Science + Literature program". National Book Foundation. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-02-14.

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