Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. She is also the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University.

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Microeditorial: Rodillas, A Kind of Reckoning

I grew up believing that I belonged to a family of birds. When your family…

Microeditorial: This Is How

I have often pictured her at a kitchen table, the newspaper at an angle, the…

Even If I Kiss a Woman

My mother and tías warn me about dating Colombian men: “Esos no sirven.” They say…