Daisy Hernández
Assistant Professor of English
Creative Writing
325 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
hernand2@MiamiOH.edu
Education
- MFA, Fiction, University of Miami, December, 2013
- MA, Journalism and Latin American & Caribbean Studies, New York University, May, 2001
- BA, English, William Paterson University Wayne, NJ, May, 1997
Teaching Interests
- The Personal Essay
- Memoir
- Literary Journalism
- Latina Narratives
Research Interests
- Creative Nonfiction
- Memoir
- Lyric Essays
Selected Publications
Books
- A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, Beacon Press, 2014
- coeditor, Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, Seal Press, 2019
Creative Nonfiction (Essays)
- “In Search of the Kissing Bug.” National Geographic, June 2019
- “The Noble Abode of Equanimity.” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, 2019
- “Grammatical Disquisitions.” The Iowa Review, Vol. 48, Issue 2, Fall 2018
- “Her Poetic Origins.” The Cincinnati Review, Spring 2018
- "The Envidia Attack,” Tricycle, 2015
- "Los Ojos,” Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, 2015
- "Bus Stop,” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, 2015
- "Stories She Tells Us,” Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, 2014
- "Blackout," Hunger Mountain: the VCFA Journal of the Arts, 2012
Fiction
- "Cuello: A Short Story,” Juked, 2015
- "Shorty," Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, University of Wisconsin Press, 2011
Web Publications
- "The World Is Here in My Spine.” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, April 13, 2020
- "What I Learned About the Heart From a Man Who Lost His.” On Being, June 29, 2018
- "Wings.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, Jan. 14, 2017
- "Kiss of Death.” Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics, May 16, 2016
- "The Buddha Loves Boundaries, and Then Some,” Killing the Buddha, 2015
- "4 Reasons Why Scandal Is a Telenovela. And a Good One,” NPR’s Code Switch, 2014
- "Sexist Depictions of Latinas Aren’t Just a Hollywood Thing,” NPR’s Code Switch, 2014
- "Northern Virginia: Ground Zero for Kissing Bug Disease," TheAtlantic.com, 2014
- "Is the Racial Apology Possible?” In These Times, 2014
Grants and Awards
- Winner of the Creative Nonfiction Contest, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, 2015
- Independent Publisher Book Award in Memoir, 2015
- Lambda Literary, Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, 2015
- Honorable Mention, Cuba’s Premio Literario Casa de las Américas, 2015