David Hernandez's poetry collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). Earlier this year, HarperCollins published his first YA novel Suckerpunch, and will follow it up next year with No More Us For You. His poems have appeared in FIELD, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and The Southern Review. His drawings have also appeared in literary magazines, including a feature in Indiana Review. David lives in Long Beach, California and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.

P.S. I am not the David Hernandez from Chicago.