Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Daisy Hernández. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Daisy Hernández is an essayist, memoirist, and journalist whose work explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, immigration, class, and sexuality. She is the author of the forthcoming book "Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth" (Hogarth Press, 2026) and "Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease" (Tin House, 2021), which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as the inaugural title for the National Book Foundation's Science + Literature Program. Hernández’s memoir, "A Cup of Water Under My Bed" (Beacon Press, 2014), received the IPPY Award for coming-of-age memoir and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award. She co-edited the anthology "Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism" (Seal Press), which has become a widely taught text in women's gender studies courses. Hernández’s essays and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including Aster(ix), Bellingham Review, Brevity, and Iowa Review, and she has reported for National Geographic and The Atlantic, among others. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and currently serves on the board of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Hernández has taught creative writing at several universities, including Miami University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Daisy Hernández teaches courses in creative writing and serves as the Director of the English Major.
Standard PhD requirements for TGS departments including Chemistry, Physics, and Sociology.