Daisy Hernández (Chair) is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, 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 also the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed, coeditor of Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, and a regular contributor to the Buddhist magazine Tricycle. She is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the English Major in Writing at Northwestern University.

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