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 

Work in Progress