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| '''Tim Z. Hernandez''' (b. February 16, 1974) is an American writer, ], and performer. | |||
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| '''Tim Z. Hernandez''' is an American writer, performer, and multi-disciplinary artist. His first poetry collection, ''Skin Tax '' (2004), received the 2006 American Book Award, and his debut novel, ''Breathing, in Dust'' (2010), was awarded the 2010 ], and was a finalist for the California Book Award. In 2011, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America. In 2014 he received the Colorado Book Award for his poetry collection, ''Natural Takeover of Small Things'', and the 2014 International Latino Book Award for his historical fiction novel, ''Mañana Means Heaven''. In 2018, he received the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano Letters administered by UC Santa Barbara, and in 2019 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. | |||
| Hernandez's research of the ] near ] which killed 32 people, resulted in his successful campaign to install a monument at the mass grave site in 2013, and at the crash site in 2024. In 2017, he published the book, ''All They Will Call You'', and in 2024, ''They Call You Back'', based on the crash and the subsequent investigation. Hernandez was one of four finalists for the inaugural Freedom Plow Award from the Split This Rock Foundation for his work on locating the victims of the plane wreck at Los Gatos. | |||
| ==Life== | |||
| Born in Dinuba, California, he was raised in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California, having lived in the predominantly farm-worker communities, including Cutler, Reedley, Dinuba, Visalia, and Fresno. In the early part of his life he was a student of painting, and exhibited his works in numerous galleries and exhibits across the west coast, before taking up writing and performance as a career. In 1999, he apprenticed with bay area master muralist Juana Alicia on a fresco buono painting titled "Santuario/ Sanctuary" located in the international wing of the San Francisco Airport. | |||
| His performances have been featured at the ], ], ], ], and at the ], among other venues. In 2000 he was commissioned by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the National Fanny Mae Foundation to write and perform an original play on homelessness and poverty. From 2001 - 2004 he was the regional program consultant with the California Council for the Humanities, where it was his job to travel to rural communities across the stretch of the San Joaquin Valley and listen to stories, of migration, and struggle. Together with these communities he developed projects that addressed each community's needs through the power of storytelling. This experience profoundly impacted his life and his writing, and he credits this period in his life as the moment his eyes were opened to the place he calls home. In 2006 and in 2009 he worked in tandem with Poets & Writers Inc. and the California Center for the Book at UCLA, offering writing workshops to marginalized communities across the state of California. | |||
| ==Early life== | |||
| He studied at the first accredited Buddhist institute in the west, ].<ref>http://www.naropa.edu/news/pressreleases/0801hernan.cfm</ref> He lives in ] with his wife and children. <ref>http://www.unco.edu/colopoets/poets/hernandez_tim/</ref> | |||
| Hernandez was raised in California's San Joaquin Valley, where he lived in farm-worker communities in the agricultural region. His family roots are in Texas, New Mexico, and East Los Angeles. Early in his life, Hernandez's parents were migrant farmworkers, following the seasons across the southwest. It was during this time on the road that he developed an interest in travel and stories.<ref name="Lone Star Literary">{{cite web |title=Tim Z. Hernandez: On Herrera, Guthrie, Kerouac's Bea Franco, and connecting with Texas roots |url=http://www.lonestarliterary.com/tim-z.-hernandez-091116.html |website=Lone Star Literary.com |accessdate=4 December 2018}}</ref> | |||
| Throughout his life, Hernandez has been a student of acting, visual arts, music, and writing. As a teenager, he focused mainly on painting. In 1999, he apprenticed with Bay Area muralist Juana Alicia on a traditional fresco mural located at the San Francisco International Airport.<ref name="Lone Star Literary" /> | |||
| ==Painting== | |||
| Hernandez began painting at an early age, eventually exhibiting in his first group show at the age of sixteen. He met the artist | |||
| In the mid 1990s Hernandez was mentored by poet Juan Felipe Herrera, and began studying writing, performance art, and theater under his tutelage. While at CSU Long Beach he also studied with poets, June Jordan, Li Young Lee, and performance artists such Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Commedia dell'arte. | |||
| Joseph De La Cruz that same year and began what he considers to be his first apprenticeship. De La Cruz taught him the basics of applying paint to canvas, and eventually helped him land his first solo exhibit by the time he turned eighteen. In 1999, while homeless and sleeping on the living room floor of an artist friend's, he encountered a chance meeting with the bay area muralist Juana Alicia. After opening his portfolio and speaking with her for a short while, at her request, he applied for an apprenticeship position with her in San Francisco, and was given the job. In the lineage of Stephen Dimitroff (chief plasterer for the mexican muralist, ]), who was Juana Alicia's teacher, Hernandez studied with the master muralist for five months. The result, a 32 x 25 ft traditional fresco mural on permanent display at the ]. A week after its completion, a car accident ended his time in the bay area, and landed him back in the central valley. Since then, he has been commissioned to paint murals for various organizations, and humanitarian endeavors, including groups such as the ], the ], ], and many others. Though, Hernandez himself sees his paintings as a hobby. | |||
| He earned his B.A. degree in Writing & Literature from the first accredited Buddhist institute in the west, ]. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing & Literature from Bennington College in Vermont. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas El Paso's Bilingual M.F.A. Creative Writing program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naropa.edu/404-page-not-found.php|title=Page does not exist | Naropa University|website=www.naropa.edu}}{{dead link|date=January 2020}}</ref> | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| Hernandez's performances have been featured at the ], Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Dixon Experimental Theater in NYC, ], ], ], and at the ], among other venues. In 2000 he was commissioned by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the National Fanny Mae Foundation to write and perform an original one-man show on homelessness and poverty. From 2006 through 2018 he worked with Poets & Writers Inc. and the California Center for the Book at UCLA, offering writing workshops to communities across the state of California.<ref name="Washington Peace Center">{{cite web |title=Literature in Conversation: Tim Z. Hernandez |url=https://washingtonpeacecenter.org/node/14757 |accessdate=4 December 2018}}</ref> | |||
| In March 2013, ] interviewed Hernandez, in regards to a new rendition of the song ]. With the help of Lance Canales, the two released a version of the song that included Hernandez reciting the names of those who perished in the ]. After more than a decade of research, Hernandez single-handedly uncovered the identities of many of the people. As stated by Hernandez, within this interview,<ref name="npr.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/03/28/175580934/the-people-behind-guthries-deportee-verses|title=The People Behind Guthrie's 'Deportee' Verses|website=NPR.org}}</ref> | |||
| {{cquote| It all comes down to the same idea of why it matters that their names are even brought up. You know, here we are, 65 years later. I mean, at the end of the day - Our names are really what represent who we are. They're our stamp on the fact that we've existed here, at one point.<ref name="npr.org"/>}} | |||
| Later in 2013, Hernandez's research of the ] culminated in his successful drive to provide a proper monument at the ] of the 28 migrant ]s who perished nearly nameless, which had inspired the song ].<ref name=UFW>{{cite web|title=Join UFW President Arturo Rodriguez at memorial dedication for 28 'deportees' Labor Day, Sept. 2 in Fresno: The 'deportees' finally have their names|url=http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=news_press&b_no=14345|work=Press release|publisher=United Farm Workers|accessdate=March 19, 2014|date=August 26, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319233723/http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=news_press&b_no=14345|archivedate=March 19, 2014}}</ref> He has since published a related non-fiction book, ''All They Will Call You''.<ref name=Hernandez-non-fiction-book-in-progress>{{cite web|last=Hernandez|first=Timothy Z.|title=All They Will Call You: An Excerpt|url=http://timzhernandez.com/2013/10/09/all-they-will-call-you-an-excerpt/|publisher=Timothy Z. Hernandez|accessdate=March 19, 2014|date=October 9, 2013}}</ref> | |||
| ==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
| * 2019 Texas Institute of Letters Inductee | |||
| * 2018 Recognition by the California State Senate for his research and recovery work on the 1948 plane crash at Los Gatos | |||
| * 2018 Luis Leal Award, UC Santa Barbara for his work on historical recovery | |||
| * 2014 Colorado Book Award, Poetry for "Natural Takeover of Small Things" | |||
| * 2014 International Latino Book Award, Historical Fiction for "Mañana Means Heaven" | |||
| * 2013 Split this Rock Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism, Finalist<ref name="Freedom Plow Award">{{cite web |title=Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism |url=http://www.splitthisrock.org/programs/freedom-plow-award-for-poetry-activism/ |website=Split this Rock |accessdate=5 December 2018}}</ref> | |||
| * 2011 New American Poets honor, Poetry Society of America | |||
| * 2011 El Premio Aztlan Literary Prize for ''Breathing, In Dust'' | |||
| * 2006 ] for ''Skin Tax'' | * 2006 ] for ''Skin Tax'' | ||
| * 2006 Zora Neal Hurston Award for '' |
* 2006 Zora Neal Hurston Award for ''Skin Tax'' | ||
| * 2003 |
* 2003 James Duval Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation, "Skin Tax" | ||
| * 2010 California Book Award Finalist, "Breathing, In Dust" | |||
| * 2003 James Duval Phelan Award by the San Francisco Foundation | |||
| * 2007 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize | |||
| ==Works== | ==Works== | ||
| <big>'''Non-Fiction'''</big> | |||
| * ''They Call You Back'' (Memoir, 2024) | |||
| * ''All They Will Call You'' (Documentary Novel, 2017) | |||
| <big>'''Fiction'''</big> | |||
| * ''Mañana Means Heaven'' (Historical Fiction, 2013) | |||
| * ''Breathing, In Dust'' (Fiction, 2010) | |||
| ===Poetry=== | ===Poetry=== | ||
| * {{cite book| title=Skin Tax| publisher=Heyday Books| place=Berkeley| date=October 2004| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SXabaFJ5mPcC&pg=PP1&dq=Tim+Z.+Hernandez&ei=sNvhStnVKZHENsHs6IwM#v=onepage&q=&f=false| isbn=9781890771935 }} | |||
| * Some of the Light: New & Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 2023) | |||
| * ''Natural Takeover of Small Things'' (Poetry, 2013) | |||
| * {{cite book| title=Skin Tax| publisher=Heyday Books| place=(Berkeley| date=October 2004| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXabaFJ5mPcC&dq=Tim+Z.+Hernandez&pg=PP1| isbn=978-1-890771-93-5 }}) | |||
| * ''Culture of Flow'', (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2012) | |||
| ===Audio CD=== | ===Audio CD=== | ||
| * ''Chile Con Karma: A Brown Lotus Project (Audio CD, recorded at Naropa University studios) | * ''Chile Con Karma: A Brown Lotus Project'' (Audio CD, recorded at Naropa University studios, 2007) Out of print. | ||
| * ''The Central Chakrah Project: A Spoken Word Cura'', (Audio CD, |
* ''The Central Chakrah Project: A Spoken Word Cura'', (Audio CD, 2000) Out of print. | ||
| ===Anthologies (partial listing)=== | ===Anthologies (partial listing)=== | ||
| * ''New California Voices'', Heyday Books. {{ISBN|978-1-59714-067-6}}. | |||
| * {{cite book|title=Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley| editors=Stan Yogi, Gayle Mak, Patricia Wakida| publisher=Great Valley Books/Heyday Books| date=2007| isbn=9781597140676 }} | |||
| * '' |
* ''The Devil's Punchbowl'', Red Hen Press, 2010 | ||
| *{{cite book|title=Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley|editor1=Stan Yogi |editor2=Gayle Mak |editor3=Patricia Wakida| publisher=Great Valley Books/Heyday Books| year=2007| isbn=978-1-59714-067-6 }} | |||
| * ''Wet: A Journal of Proper Bathing (University of Miami) | |||
| * ''Border Senses'' (Border Senses Press) | |||
| * ''Black Renaissance Noire (NYU) | |||
| * ''Wet: A Journal of Proper Bathing'' (University of Miami) | |||
| * ''Many Mountains Moving (MMM Press) | |||
| * ''Black Renaissance Noire'' (NYU) | |||
| * ''Undocumented: In the Gardens & the Margins (Baksun Books) | |||
| * '' |
* ''Many Mountains Moving'' (MMM Press) | ||
| * ''Undocumented: In the Gardens & the Margins'' (Baksun Books) | |||
| * ''Square One (Colorado University) | |||
| * ''Symposium ''(Baobab Tree Press) | |||
| * ''Square One'' (Colorado University) | |||
| * ''Mosaic Voices Anthology'' (Poppy Lane Publishing) | * ''Mosaic Voices Anthology'' (Poppy Lane Publishing) | ||
| * ''Ram’s Tale Anthology'' ( Fresno City College) | * ''Ram’s Tale Anthology'' ( Fresno City College) | ||
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| Tim Z. Hernandez | |
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 Hernandez at the 2024 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | Dinuba, California |
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| Education | Naropa University Bennington College |
| Notable works | All They Will Call You They Call You Back Mañana Means Heaven Skin Tax Some of the Light |
| Notable awards | American Book Award Luis Leal Award Int'l Latino Book Award Colorado Book Award |
| Website | |
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Tim Z. Hernandez is an American writer, performer, and multi-disciplinary artist. His first poetry collection, Skin Tax (2004), received the 2006 American Book Award, and his debut novel, Breathing, in Dust (2010), was awarded the 2010 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, and was a finalist for the California Book Award. In 2011, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America. In 2014 he received the Colorado Book Award for his poetry collection, Natural Takeover of Small Things, and the 2014 International Latino Book Award for his historical fiction novel, Mañana Means Heaven. In 2018, he received the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano Letters administered by UC Santa Barbara, and in 2019 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Hernandez's research of the 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash near Los Gatos, California which killed 32 people, resulted in his successful campaign to install a monument at the mass grave site in 2013, and at the crash site in 2024. In 2017, he published the book, All They Will Call You, and in 2024, They Call You Back, based on the crash and the subsequent investigation. Hernandez was one of four finalists for the inaugural Freedom Plow Award from the Split This Rock Foundation for his work on locating the victims of the plane wreck at Los Gatos.
Early life
Hernandez was raised in California's San Joaquin Valley, where he lived in farm-worker communities in the agricultural region. His family roots are in Texas, New Mexico, and East Los Angeles. Early in his life, Hernandez's parents were migrant farmworkers, following the seasons across the southwest. It was during this time on the road that he developed an interest in travel and stories.
Throughout his life, Hernandez has been a student of acting, visual arts, music, and writing. As a teenager, he focused mainly on painting. In 1999, he apprenticed with Bay Area muralist Juana Alicia on a traditional fresco mural located at the San Francisco International Airport.
In the mid 1990s Hernandez was mentored by poet Juan Felipe Herrera, and began studying writing, performance art, and theater under his tutelage. While at CSU Long Beach he also studied with poets, June Jordan, Li Young Lee, and performance artists such Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Commedia dell'arte.
He earned his B.A. degree in Writing & Literature from the first accredited Buddhist institute in the west, Naropa University. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing & Literature from Bennington College in Vermont. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas El Paso's Bilingual M.F.A. Creative Writing program.
Career
Hernandez's performances have been featured at the Getty Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Dixon Experimental Theater in NYC, The Loft Literary Center, Intersection for the Arts, Stanford University, and at the Jack Kerouac School, among other venues. In 2000 he was commissioned by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the National Fanny Mae Foundation to write and perform an original one-man show on homelessness and poverty. From 2006 through 2018 he worked with Poets & Writers Inc. and the California Center for the Book at UCLA, offering writing workshops to communities across the state of California.
In March 2013, NPR interviewed Hernandez, in regards to a new rendition of the song Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos). With the help of Lance Canales, the two released a version of the song that included Hernandez reciting the names of those who perished in the 1948 Los Gatos plane crash. After more than a decade of research, Hernandez single-handedly uncovered the identities of many of the people. As stated by Hernandez, within this interview,
It all comes down to the same idea of why it matters that their names are even brought up. You know, here we are, 65 years later. I mean, at the end of the day - Our names are really what represent who we are. They're our stamp on the fact that we've existed here, at one point.
Later in 2013, Hernandez's research of the 1948 Los Gatos plane crash culminated in his successful drive to provide a proper monument at the mass grave of the 28 migrant farmworkers who perished nearly nameless, which had inspired the song Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos). He has since published a related non-fiction book, All They Will Call You.
Awards
- 2019 Texas Institute of Letters Inductee
- 2018 Recognition by the California State Senate for his research and recovery work on the 1948 plane crash at Los Gatos
- 2018 Luis Leal Award, UC Santa Barbara for his work on historical recovery
- 2014 Colorado Book Award, Poetry for "Natural Takeover of Small Things"
- 2014 International Latino Book Award, Historical Fiction for "Mañana Means Heaven"
- 2013 Split this Rock Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism, Finalist
- 2011 New American Poets honor, Poetry Society of America
- 2011 El Premio Aztlan Literary Prize for Breathing, In Dust
- 2006 American Book Award for Skin Tax
- 2006 Zora Neal Hurston Award for Skin Tax
- 2003 James Duval Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation, "Skin Tax"
- 2010 California Book Award Finalist, "Breathing, In Dust"
Works
Non-Fiction
- They Call You Back (Memoir, 2024)
- All They Will Call You (Documentary Novel, 2017)
Fiction
- Mañana Means Heaven (Historical Fiction, 2013)
- Breathing, In Dust (Fiction, 2010)
Poetry
- Some of the Light: New & Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 2023)
- Natural Takeover of Small Things (Poetry, 2013)
- Skin Tax. (Berkeley: Heyday Books. October 2004. ISBN 978-1-890771-93-5.)
- Culture of Flow, (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2012)
Audio CD
- Chile Con Karma: A Brown Lotus Project (Audio CD, recorded at Naropa University studios, 2007) Out of print.
- The Central Chakrah Project: A Spoken Word Cura, (Audio CD, 2000) Out of print.
Anthologies (partial listing)
- New California Voices, Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-067-6.
- The Devil's Punchbowl, Red Hen Press, 2010
- Stan Yogi; Gayle Mak; Patricia Wakida, eds. (2007). Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley. Great Valley Books/Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-067-6.
- Border Senses (Border Senses Press)
- Wet: A Journal of Proper Bathing (University of Miami)
- Black Renaissance Noire (NYU)
- Many Mountains Moving (MMM Press)
- Undocumented: In the Gardens & the Margins (Baksun Books)
- Symposium (Baobab Tree Press)
- Square One (Colorado University)
- Mosaic Voices Anthology (Poppy Lane Publishing)
- Ram’s Tale Anthology ( Fresno City College)
- Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets Anthology ’02 (Chicano Writers & Artists Association)
References
- ^ "Tim Z. Hernandez: On Herrera, Guthrie, Kerouac's Bea Franco, and connecting with Texas roots". Lone Star Literary.com. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- "Page does not exist | Naropa University". www.naropa.edu.
- "Literature in Conversation: Tim Z. Hernandez". Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ "The People Behind Guthrie's 'Deportee' Verses". NPR.org.
- "Join UFW President Arturo Rodriguez at memorial dedication for 28 'deportees' Labor Day, Sept. 2 in Fresno: The 'deportees' finally have their names". Press release. United Farm Workers. August 26, 2013. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
- Hernandez, Timothy Z. (October 9, 2013). "All They Will Call You: An Excerpt". Timothy Z. Hernandez. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
- "Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism". Split this Rock. Retrieved 5 December 2018.