Eliana Hernández

Eliana Hernández was born in Bogotá in 1989. Her first book, La mata (Laguna Libros-Cardumen), won Colombia's National Poetry Prize in 2021. She has been published in various anthologies and journals, including Firmament, Berlin Quarterly, and Como la flor: Antología de poesía colombiana cuir contemporánea (Planeta Libros, June 2021).

She graduated from New York University's MFA in Creative Writing and holds a PhD in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. She is team member of Lugar Común.

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