Tim Z. Hernandez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetTim Z. Hernandez
American writer
Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1974
Place of Birth: Dinuba, California, United States
Profession: poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Tim Z. Hernandez
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- Hernandez (born February 16, 1974) is an American writer, poet, and performer.
- His first poetry collection, Skin Tax (Heyday, 2004), received the 2006 American Book Award, and his debut novel, Breathing, in Dust (Texas Tech University Press, 2010), was awarded the 2010 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, and was a finalist for the California Book Award.
- In 2011, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America. Hernandez's research of the 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash near Los Gatos, California which killed 32 people, primarily Mexican farm laborers, resulted in his successful campaign to install a monument at the mass grave site.
- In 2017, he published the book, All They Will Call You, on the crash and the subsequent investigation.
- Hernandez was one of four finalists for the inaugural Freedom Plow Award from the Split This Rock Foundation for his work on locating the victims of the plane wreck at Los Gatos.
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