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. Her journalism work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and National Geographic. Hernández is an associate professor in the English Department at Northwestern University.