Please join us and the Department of English for an author reading and Q&A featuring fiction writer and poet Tim Z. Hernandez!

A part of the 2024-25 Creative Writing Series, this event is free and open to all, and will be available in person and livestreamed.

Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He is the recipient of the American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award, and his work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, C-Span and NPR’s "All Things Considered." In 2018 he was recognized by the California Senate for locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, which is chronicled in his book, All They Will Call You, and the sequel, They Call You Back. Originally from California's Central Valley, he currently lives in El Paso, Texas where he is an associate professor in the University of Texas at El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing Department.