Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. He writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Book Award. His work has been published internationally, and in 2018 the California Senate honored his work locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos, which is chronicled in his books, All They Will Call You and They Call You Back. Hernandez is an associate professor in the University of Texas at El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing program.
Awards: American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, International Latino Book Award
Communities: Hispanic or Latinx, Indigenous or Native American
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