Leticia Hernandez

Leticia Hernandez

Leticia Hernandez, M.F.A.

Lecturer Faculty

Office: EP 416
Phone: (415) 405-0395
Email: leticiah@sfsu.edu

Lecturer Faculty Biography

  • M.F.A, Creative Writing, 2020, San Francisco State University  
  • M.A., English, 1994, University of Pennsylvania
  • B.A., English, cum laude, 1993, Scripps College

Central American Studies, Gender & Feminisms, Literature, Creative Writing, Mesoamerican Cultures, Testimonio/Testimonial Practices, Local Yelamu (San Francisco) communities and histories

  • LTNS 410: Seminar on Gender and Latinas/Latinos
  • LTNS 460: Central Americans of the U.S.: History and Heritage
  • LTNS 230: Introduction to Latina/o Literature
  • LTNS 305: Latina/o Studies Creative Writing Workshop
  • LTNS 435: Oral History, Community Memory, and Collective Stories
  • LTNS 455: Resistance Literature of the Americas
  • LTNS 215: Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies 
  • WGS 541: Women Writers and Social Change 
  • WGS 548: Literature by Women of Color
  • RRS 280: Race, Gender & Sci Fi Lit 
  • LTNS 565: Central Americans Writing in the U.S.
  • SFSU ORSP Small Grant, 2025-2026
  • San Francisco Public Library Laureate, 2017, 2025  
  • San Francisco Poet Laureate Finalist, 2017, 2021, 2024
  • San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival, Community Appreciation Teyolía Award, 2023
  • San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Grantee, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2021
  • YBCA 100 Honoree, 2020
  • Local Hero Award, Latino Heritage Month, KQED, 2009

COMMUNITY EVENT PRODUCTION (MC & ORGANIZER):

~AfroMundo, 47th Annual Carnaval SF Parade (2025)

~Places We Call Home (Partnership with the Library of the Americas & SFPL) Medicine for Nightmares (2024) 

~Esotéricas, S.F. International Flor y Canto Literary Festival (2024)

~Honoring Indigenous Roots, 46th Annual Carnaval SF Parade (2024) 

~Nancy Morejón in San Francisco, Pegasus Books, Bam House, MCCLA (2024)

~Incantation: Poetry Reading & Discussion with Xochitl J. Bermejo (2023) 

~YBCA 10Links to an external site., Artist in Residence, Yerba Buen Center for the Arts (2022)

  • Faculty Advisor, Hermanas Unidas 2020-2021
  • COES Creative and Performing Arts Committee
  • (ARC) Transfer Pathways Faculty Learning Community
  • LTNS Scholarship Committee
  • Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community, Spring 2025
  • Chair Election Committee, Spring 2025
  • LTNS Program Review Committee, Spring 2025
  • FURI Grant, Spring 2024
  • COES New Faculty Learning Community, Fall 2023-Spring 2024

BOOKS

  • Alejandria Fights Back/ Alejandria defiende, Feminist Press, 2021.
  • Wandering Song:  Central American Writing in the United States, Ed. Leticia Hernández-Linares, Rubén Martínez,  Héctor Tobar, Tía Chucha Press,  2017.
  • Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl, Tía Chucha Press, 2015.
  • Razor Edges of My Tongue. Calaca Press, 2002.

 

SELECTED POEMS

  • “Hija de Su,” Raising Mothers, November, 2020.
  • “Latido,” (Poem of the Week) The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database, Split This Rock, October 2020. 
  • “Orquesta Missíon,” & “Her Arms Filled with Stars,” The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT, Haymarket Books (2020).
  • “El Círculo del Cuento, the Story is a Circle,” Maestreapeace, San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural, Juana Alicia et al., Heyday Press, (2019)
  • “#metoo for Tlaloc”; “On the First Day of War, I’m Supposed to Teach Poetry”; “Tragedilandia,” 
  • La Piscucha Magazine, Volume 1, 2019.
  • Five Poems in Other Musics: New Latina Poetry,” Cynthia Cruz, ed.  University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
  • “Her Arms filled with Stars” [Pank] Issue 14, 2019.
  • “Truth in the Negatives,” and “How to Build a Funeral Pyre,” Latinas: Voices of Protest and Struggles in 21st Century USA, Iris Morales, ed. Red Sugarcane Press, 2018.          
  • “Cartógrafa,” Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions, Claudia Hernández, ed. Conocimiento Press, 2018. 
  • “Luna de papel,” & “Ojo de díos,” Poetry in Flight/Poesía en Vuelo, El Tecolote, 2017.     
  • “A Talent for Packing,” Atravesando, An Aster(ix) Anthology, Angie Cruz & Oindrila Mukherjee, eds.  Blue Sketch Press, 2016.     
  • “Tejido de Tres Mujeres,” Hostos Review, Revista Hostosiana, #20 “Volver al Futuro, Back to the Future,” edited by Norma Cantú, Sandra Guzman, & Enrique Winter, 2024.
  • “Translating the Wash,” Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González, Library of America 382, 2024.
  • “This Ground, Mi Corazón,” The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco, edited by Charlie Jane Anders and Oscar Villalon, 2024. 
  • “Siguanaba Taxonomy,” Latine Monsters, Barrelhouse, 2024.

ESSAYS:

  • “Counting with Stories: Luis J. Rodríguez’s Always Running as Testimonio and Praxis,” The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run, edited by Josephine Metcalf, Ben Olguín, Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

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