Claudia D. Hernández was born and   raised in Guatemala. She’s a  photographer, poet, editor, translator, and a bilingual educator residing in Los  Angeles. Hernández is the author of THE ORQUID OF QUETZALI, KNITTING THE FOG, a finalist for the
2020 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is also an   award winning editor for her anthology  photography book titled WOMEN,   MUJERES, IXOQ: REVOLUTIONARY VISIONS, which received the  International Latino Book Award in 2019.   She is the founder of the ongoing  project: Today’s Revolutionary Women of  Color.
 
Claudia holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Various online literary journals and  anthologies throughout the United States, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Spain have published  her work. Claudia is the recipient of the 2018 Louise Meriwether First Book   Prize.