About

Saúl Hernández 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. As a finalist for The Wisconsin Poetry Series, His first poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is out now, University of Wisconsin Press. Saúl is the recipient of a 2025 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He's the winner of both 2022 Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize (judged by Joy Priest) & the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize (judged by Victoria Chang). Saúl was nominated for Poet Laureate of San Antonio in 2024. He is a finalist for the 2024 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place nominated by Patrica Smith. He's a finalist for Palette Poetry 2020 Spotlight Award & a finalist for the 2019 Submerging Writer Fellowship, Fear No Lit; semi-finalists for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers, Nimrod Literary Journal. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize & Best of The Net. Saúl’s work is forthcoming/featured in The American Poetry Review, Sundog Lit, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Literary Hub, Columbia Journal, Pleiades, Split This Rock, Frontier Poetry, Poet Lore, Foglifter Journal, Oyster River Pages, Cherry Tree, Atlanta Review, Quarterly West, PANK Magazine, Pidgeonholes, The Acentos Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Normal School, Rio Grande Review, and Adelaid Literary Magazine. He's a Macondista, a 2021 Tin House Alum, & a 2024 Lambda Literary Fellow. He currently lives in San Antonio, TX.