Claudia D. Hernández was born and raised in Guatemala. She’s a photographer, poet, editor, translator and a bilingual educator residing in Los  Angeles. Hernández is the author of "Knitting the Fog," a finalist for the 2020 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is also an  award-winning editor for her anthology photography book, "Women, Mujeres, IXOQ: Revolutionary Visions," which received the  International Latino Book Award in 2019. She is the founder of the ongoing project: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. www.Todaysrevolutionarywomenofcolor.com

Hernández holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Various online literary journals and anthologies throughout the United States, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Spain have published her work. She is the recipient of the 2018 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. 

For more information, visit www.Claudiadhernandez.com