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Saúl Hernández

Saúl Hernández
Saúl Hernández (he/him) is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX who was raised by undocumented parents. Saúl has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. His debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters (University of Wisconsin Press), is out Spring 2024. He’s the winner of the 2022 Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize judged by Joy Priest & the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Victoria Chang. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net. Saúl’s work is forthcoming/featured in Pleiades, the Split This Rock "Poem a Week" series, Columbia Journal, Frontier Poetry, Poet Lore, Foglifter Journal, Oyster River Pages, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere.


“La Doppelgänger,” a poem by Saúl Hernández

From the Collection “How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters”
March 21, 2024  By Saúl Hernández
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