Daisy Hernandez is 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. The former editor of ColorLines magazine, she has reported for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Slate, and she has written for NPR's “All Things Considered” and “CodeSwitch.” Her essays and fiction have appeared in Aster(ix), Bellingham Review, Brevity, Dogwood, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Juked, and Rumpus, among other journals. A contributing editor for the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, Daisy is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at Miami University in Ohio.
At MacDowell, she was working on a collection of personal essays about Latinas and language.
