Interview with féi hernandez

Waves Breaking

In this episode, I spoke with féi hernandez about Hood Criatura, their poetry collection released in 2020. We also spoke about their incredible skills as an illustrator, and féi recommends some fantastic reads.

féi hernandez (b.1993 Chihuahua, Mexico) is a trans, Inglewood- raised, formerly undocumented immigrant artist, writer, healer. They have been published in POETRY, Pank Magazine, Oxford Review of Books, Frontier Poetry, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, amongst others. They are a Define American Fellow for 2021 and are currently the Board President of Gender Justice Los Angeles. féi is the author of the full-length poetry collection Hood Criatura (Sundress Publications 2020) which was on NPR’s Best Books of 2020. féi collects Pokémon plushies.

féi’s website

féi’s instagram

Purchase Hood Criatura

Poets, books, etc. mentioned in this episode:

• Gloomy the Naughty Grizzly, anime series

• Sailor Moon, anime series

• Natalie Diaz’s My Brother Was an Aztec

• Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem

• Ambar Lucid and her song “Story to Tell”

• féi’s illustrations

• Hood Criatura on Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. Go leave a review :)

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