39 min
Interview with féi hernandez Waves Breaking
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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 :)
Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz
The Sound of Waves Breaking is “Project - 3_30_21, 6.55 PM.wav” by bradygalp123
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 :)
Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz
The Sound of Waves Breaking is “Project - 3_30_21, 6.55 PM.wav” by bradygalp123
39 min