Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002), and in 2014 published A Cup of Water Under My Bed, a memoir about growing up queer in a Colombian-Cuban family.
On January 12, 2011, the NPR program All Things Considered broadcast her commentary on the 2011 Arizona shooting.
[9] Hernández's latest book, The Kissing Bug, documents the prevalence of Chagas disease in the United States.
[10][11] In February 2022, The Kissing Bug was one of the three books selected for the inaugural version of Science + Literature program created by the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to highlight "diversity of voices in contemporary science and technology writing".
[12] She was a finalist at the 2021 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in US for her book - The Kissing Bug.