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Saúl Hernández
What Lies Under Blue I spend a whole summer swimming in bluebonnet fields. Every time a breeze dances through each stem, the field speaks. Except I don’t know where the sentence begins or ends. …
Saúl Hernández
Mistake House Magazine: Images of water recur throughout How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters, often in dream sequences. Early on, these images feel surreal and resistant to containment, as in “The Boy Who Lives in Dreams,” where the speaker tries to “nail water to the wall,” only for it to slip away. But as the …
Saúl Hernández
In an interview with Bryan Washington for A24 Podcast, “All The Ways to Be,” Ocean Vuong said, “Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, ‘Is this enough …
Saúl Hernández
Saúl Hernández is a queer writer who was raised by former undocumented parents. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. Saúl is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. His debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is a 2025 Lambda Literary …