Daisy Hernández, Date of Birth

Daisy Hernández

American writer

Date of Birth: 23-May-1975

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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Daisy Hernández (born May 23, 1975) is a writer and editor in the United States.
She coedited the essay collection Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002), and in 2014 published A Cup of Water Under My Bed, a memoir about growing up queer in a Colombian-Cuban family.From 2008 to 2010, Hernández edited ColorLines, where she began working as a senior writer in 2004.
On January 12, 2011, the NPR program All Things Considered broadcast her commentary on the 2011 Arizona shooting.
Conservatives critiqued the piece for its use of the word gringo."Becoming a Black Man", her article about the experiences of black trans men, was nominated in 2009 for a GLAAD Media Award in the category of "Outstanding Magazine Article".
In 2015, she was named one of the two winners of the Lambda Literary Foundation's "Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award" at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards.