Venezuelan native Nidia Hernández 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--the digital backup of a radio program (also called La Maja Desnuda) from the last 35 years and a collection of the best poets from around the world--won the 2011 world Summit Awards. Currently, she is broadcasting the program through UPV Radio 102.5 FM Spain. In Boston, Nidia is an associate editor of ArrowsmithPress, and through them also curates Poesiaudio, a collection of Latin American poetry in English and Spanish, in which one can hear the voices of Latin American poets themselves, and belongs to the Board of Directors of The New England Poetry Club. Hernández is the winner of the 2021 Sundara Ramaswamy Prize for her editorial work on The Land of Mild Light, an anthology by Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, which includes translations by Robert Pinsky, Sophie Cabot Black, Carolyn Forché, Shara McCallum, and Forrest Gander. Nidia Hernández was awarded a 2021 Certificate of Recognition “for her exemplary leadership in support of English language training for immigrants in the city of Boston.” In 2022, she published a new anthology, The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets, for which she which won the 2023 Mass Poetry Community Award. The Farewell Light (Arrowsmith Press, 2024) is her most recent collection of poems.
