David Hernandez's third collection, Hoodwinked, recently won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2011. His other collections include Always Danger (SIU Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in FIELD, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and Poetry Daily. David is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches at the University of California, Irvine and in the MFA program at Anitoch University-Los Angeles. He lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.

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