Alba Delia Hernández

Alba Delia Hernández is an award winning writer, inspired by Puerto Rico, growing up in Bushwick, and salsa, who dances in the hybrid forms of fiction, playwriting and poetry. She was a featured reader for The Bushwick Starr’s 2023 Reading Series and was awarded the winner of the 2022 One Festival for her one woman show, Juana Peña Revisited. She is a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) Award, the Bronx Council on the Arts First Chapter Award and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. Her writing was highly commended in A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, El Proyecto de La Literatura Puertorriqueña through the University of Houston’s USLDH and the Mellon Foundation, and other publications. She has performed at El Museo del Barrio, The Whitney Museum, Nuyorican Poets Café, La Respuesta in Puerto Rico and other venues. She’s a passionate yoga teacher, salsa dancer, and videographer who recites speeches by Puerto Rican revolutionaries or moves to songs of resistance.