Amanda Hernández

Amanda Hernández is a Puerto Rican poet and editor. She has a BA in literature and an MA in cultural management, both from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus. Her work has been mostly self-published in author’s editions. 

Hernández’s poetry collections include La distancia es un lugar (La Impresora, 2020); Estrategias atómicas (La Impresora, 2018); and Entre tanto amarillo (La Impresora, 2016). Her work has also appeared in a couple of anthologies, including Bioversa: antología de poesía científica puertorriqueña (Gnomo Editorial, 2024), edited by Mónica Lladó-Ortega and Eiric Durandal-Stormcrow.

In 2023, Hernández’s first poetry book translated into English by the poet Kenneth Cumba was published by Editorial Pulpo in a bilingual edition titled Entre tanto amarillo / Yellow Struck. That same year, her poem “Arquitecta,” from Estrategias atómicas, was commissioned by the Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón for an original piece with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, interpreted by the Colombian singer Lido Pimienta. In 2025, Hernández’s poetry was once again commissioned by Negrón, this time as part of her concert Recovecos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Green Umbrella Series.

In 2021, Hernández was named an inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellow by Flamboyán and the Mellon Foundation. She is a codirector of La Impresora, an independent poetry press and risograph printing studio that specializes in publishing contemporary Caribbean and Latin American poetry.

Hernández lives in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.