Daisy Hernández is a memoirist and a journalist who writes about the intersections of race, immigration, class, and sexuality. She is the author of several books, including The Kissing Bug, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. She is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, and her journalism work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and National Geographic. She’s an associate professor in the English Department at Northwestern University.