Amanda Hernández is a Puerto Rican poet and editor. She has a BA in Literature and an MA in Cultural Management, both from the University of Puerto Rico. Hernández’s poetry collections include La única cosa importante / The Only Thing that Matters (University of Arizona Press, 2027), translated by Ana Portnoy Brimmer and the winner of the 2026 Ambroggio Prize; La voluntad de tenernos (Trabalis Editores, 2026); Entre tanto amarillo / Yellow Struck (Editorial Pulpo, 2023); and La distancia es un lugar (La Impresora, 2020). In 2021, Hernández was named an inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellow by Flamboyán and the Mellon Foundation. She is a co-director of La Impresora, an independent poetry press and risograph printing studio that specializes in publishing contemporary Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American poetry.
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