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]

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]

• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[2]
• 2010 Kathyrn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• 2005 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry