Daisy Hernández is the author of "The Kissing Bug," winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. Her memoir, "A Cup of Water Under My Bed," won Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was a Publishing Triangle Award finalist. She co-edited the classic feminist anthology "Colonize This!" and is an associate professor of creative writing at Northwestern University. Her latest book is "Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth."
Awards: National Book Award, PEN Literary Award, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; IPPY Award for best coming-of-age memoir and Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award
Communities: LGBTQ+, Hispanic or Latinx
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