David Hernandez (born in 1971)[1] is an American poet and novelist.

Most recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

His father Jaime A. Hernandez, migrated from Colombia to the United States at a young age; his mother Nancy Cornejo is originally from Chile.

David is the descendant of a long line of poets dating back to the 1870s, the Gamboa family, and he was included in the book Los Gamboa: una Dinastía de Poetas [8] published in 2008.

He teaches poetry at California State University, Long Beach, and teaches creative writing at California State University, Fullerton.