Hernandez, Tim Z.

Tim Z. Hernandez is an award winning writer and performer originally from California. His debut collection of poetry, Skin Tax (Heyday, 2004), received the 2006 American Book Award, and his debut novel, Breathing, in Dust (Texas Tech University Press, 2010), was featured on NPR's All Things Considered. It went on to receive the 2010 Premio Aztlan Prize in Fiction, and was a finalist for the California Book Award. In 2011, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America. He is a frequent visiting author at Universities and institutions across the U.S. and