About this Artist

Amanda Hernández is a poet, editor, and independent Puerto Rican artist. She studied literature and cultural management and is the codirector of the small-scale risograph printing poetry press La Impresora, founded in 2016 and situated in the west coast town of Isabela, PR.

Most of her poetry work has been self-published, including titles such as Entre tanto amarillo (2016), Estrategias atómicas (2018), and La distancia es un lugar (2020). In 2021, she received the inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship awarded by the Mellon Foundation for her work as a Puerto Rican poet. In 2023, her first book was translated into English and published in a bilingual edition titled Yellow Struck (2023, Editorial Pulpo).

Her artistic practice is centered on writing, editing, and publishing contemporary poetry, handmade bookbinding techniques, and making editorial accompaniment and publishing opportunities accessible for emergent Puerto Rican writers and artists.