Nidia Hernández

Nidia Hernández was born in Venezuela and has been living in the US since 2018. She is a poet, translator of Portuguese poetry, editor, broadcaster, and radio producer. Her editorial project lamajadesnuda.com won the 2011 World Summit Awards, and her radio program (also called La Maja Desnuda) has presented works from the last 35 years with more than 1,820 broadcasts. Currently, she is broadcasting the program through UPV Radio 102.5 FM Spain. She curates Poesiaudio (Arrowsmith Press), is a co-editor for Mercurius Magazine, a UK publication based in Barcelona, Spain, and belongs to the Board of Directors of New England Poetry Club. Hernández is the winner of the 2021 Sundara Ramaswamy Prize for her editorial work on The Land of Mild Light by Rafael Cadenas. In 2022, she published a new anthology, The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets, for which she won the 2023 Mass Poetry Community Award.