Saúl Hernández

A Latinx man wearing a blue denim shirt, unbuttoned to reveal a black undershirt. He has a round face, warm brown eyes, and dark brown hair. A neatly kept beard frames his smile, giving him a friendly and approachable appearance.

Photo by Bradley Miller

Saúl Hernández is a queer writer who was raised by former undocumented parents. Saúl is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. His debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is a Texas’ League of Writers Discovery Prize Winner, a Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Poetry, a Texas Institute of Letters’ honor-winner for First Book of Poetry, and was Longlisted for a 2025 PEN Open Book Award. He’s the winner of both the 2022 Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize judged by Joy Priest & the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Victoria Chang. Saúl’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize & Best of The Net. His work has been published in American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Literary Hub, Columbia Journal, Pleiades, Split This Rock, and other publications. He’s a Macondista, a 2021 Tin House Alum, and a 2024 Lambda Literary Fellow.