Elvira Hernández (pseudonym of Rosa María Teresa Adriasola Olave; born 2 July 1951) is a Chilean poet, essayist, and literary critic.

[3] In 1979, she was arrested on the street by agents of the National Information Center (CNI), and was held in the Borgoño Barracks [es] for five days (they had mistaken her for another person they called the submachine gun woman).

If I was going to continue writing, I had to give an account of all that, but not as a testimony, because my personal experience, analyzed in its context, was somewhat minimal compared to what happened to hundreds of people.

was released, and since then Elvira Hernández has continued to publish both poetry books and essays (the latter signed with her real name, Teresa Adriasola).

Her work has been associated with "neo-avant-garde" poets such as Raúl Zurita, Soledad Fariña, Verónica Zondek and Juan Luis Martínez.