Teachers
Acharya Dale Asrael
Dale Asrael, growing up in a suburb of Washington, DC, studied music and dance and, even as a young child, ruthlessly searched for answers. Through her Jewish ancestry, she learned to celebrate the sacredness of life and, simultaneously be aware of the depth of human suffering. After completing university studies in film and Eastern religions, Dale moved to Canada in 1970, disheartened by the Vietnam War. Shortly after she took Refuge Vows at the Kagyü Center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dale heard reports of a “revolutionary young lama” who was teaching about chaos and wisdom. She journeyed to Boulder to…
Acharya Eve Rosenthal
Eve Rosenthal became a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala and Naropa University, in 1973. In the mid-eighties, she began to teach the dharma in New York City. She was empowered by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as an acharya (senior teacher) in 2005. She travels widely to teach on meditation and Shambhala and Buddhist principles, leading programs and retreats for the public as well as advanced practitioners. Founder of Shambhala Online, Eve has worked in technology on Wall Street and as a university professor. She is a long time practitioner and instructor of Tai Chi Chuan. She lives in Halifax, Canada…
Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown
Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where she has taught since 1978. She has been a Shambhala Acharya since 2000, and teaches internationally. Her teaching specialties are meditation practice, compassion, Shambhala teachings, Buddhist philosophy, tantric Buddhism, and contemplative higher education. Her book, Dakini’s Warm Breath (Shambhala 2001), explores the feminine principle as it reveals itself in meditation practice and everyday life for women and men. She has also edited Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies (SUNY 2011). She and her husband, Richard, have two adult children and three grandchildren. Books…
Acharya Martin (Marty) Janowitz
Marty Janowitz has been a student of mindfulness, awareness, and Buddhism since encountering his teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche at the age of 20. He is a senior teacher within the Shambhala Tibetan Buddhist lineage and committed to its vision of an integrated path of inner and societal transformation. In 1986, he and his family immigrated with Rinpoche, from Colorado to Nova Scotia, Canada in furtherance of this commitment. Central to his practice and learning has been restorative action towards sustainable and environmentally healthy communities that at their core express the heart of awareness. He has been involved in this movement…
Acharya Melissa Moore
Melissa Moore, PhD., has been a student of Shambhala since 1979. She has an MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University, and she has been teaching internationally since 1994. She was empowered as an Acharya in 2013. She Co-founded and continues to offer The Karuna Training, a 2-year professional certificate in Contemplative Psychology. Karuna training is offered now in 7 Countries and in the United States in Berkely, Seattle, Albuquerque, Baltimore, and Las Angeles. Melissa’s teaching is experiential and this brings people to a non-conceptual appreciation of the dharma.
Agness Au
Sangyum Agness Au is a senior teacher and preceptor in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, which she has followed for more than 35 years. Currently, she is senior director of the Shambhala Training and Warrior Assembly and a member of the board of directors for Shambhala International. In 1985, Au was empowered by the late Tibetan Buddhist Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche with the life-long designation as a Sangyum. The title was given to seven female students with the explicit purpose of increasing feminine presence within the leadership of the international organization and community. A former New York City Shambhala Training resident director,…
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn and Streaming as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer. She is the editor of the anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies and Effigies II and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work on a film, Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirties, a new CD, and new poems. She has served as a National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor, Paul & Clarice Reynolds Chair in Creative Writing, University of Central Oklahoma Artist in…
Arawana Hayashi
Arawana Hayashi first saw Vidyadhara Chogyam Rinpoche in the summer of 1974 when her improvisational dance company auspiciously toured through Boulder. She did not remember anything he said, but she had never seen anyone move through the space as he did. That inspired her to stop and sit down on a cushion. In 1976 he suggested she join the Naropa Institute as Co-Director of the Dance Program with Barbara Dilley. The following year he asked her to studybugaku, Japanese Court Dance, and to use this form as a basis for creating Shambhala art. She then began studying with Suenobu Togi…
Ariadna Franco Martínez
Performer, coreógrafa y terapeuta. Desde 2008 ha realizado obra artística con el cuerpo como centro de la obra y con la disolución de roles creador- espectador, recibiendo diversos apoyos y premios del INBA, CONACULTA, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, Secretaría de Cultura, TV UNAM y Danza UNAM, entre otros. . Ha impartido talleres de danza y movimiento en distintas ciudades de México y ha participado como docente en Congresos en México, Colombia, Perú y Brasil. A través de la danzaterapia, la Improvisación de Contacto y la somática ha realizado Encuentros y talleres para todxs les cuerpxs confirmando que la danza nos pertenece…
Artist to the Kalapa Court Marcia Wang Shibata
Artist to the Kalapa Court Marcia Wang Shibata is the senior teacher of Kado within the Shambhala Buddhist community, and co- founder of the Shambhala Kado School, recognized and blessed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 2003. In 2011, she was given the title of Master Instructor of Shambhala Kado, in 2013 she was given the title of Artist to the Kalapa Court. She is a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, having started her path in Buddhist study and meditation and Kado in 1974. From 1980 to 1985 Ms Shibata studied Ikebana in Japan in the major schools both…
Cecilia Amador Rodríguez
Cecilia Amador Rodríguez ha practicado la meditación budista por 28 años y es instructora de meditación y maestra acreditada por Shambhala Internacional. Sigue las enseñanzas de la tradición Shambhala y del Linaje Kagyü de budismo tibetano. Está a cargo de las traducciones en México para Shambhala Internacional. Es traductora y psicoterapeuta. Se dedica a hacer traducciones de textos psicológicos, budistas y científicos. Ha dirigido grupos en los que trabaja con sueños, reflexiones sobre la vida y la muerte, y yoga taoista. En su práctica privada utiliza la psicoterapia contemplativa. Ha enseñado budismo en algunas universidades y centros de meditación. Terminó…
Charlene Leung
Acharya Charlene Leung has served as Chairperson of the Shambhala International Diversity Working Group since 2009. She was appointed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as a Shastri in 2010 and an Acharya in 2018. She first became a student of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1983. Over the years, Charlene has led Way of Shambhala and parenting as path programs. She facilitates workshops for the UNtraining, a Shambhala inspired organization devoted to healing personal and social oppressions. Her current teaching focus is developing programs that join Shambhala dharma with social justice and inclusion. Professionally she practices Chinese medicine and teaches qi…
Christina Burress
Christina Burress has been teaching writing since 2007 to students of all ages. She has designed and implemented both in-person and online courses whose aim is to increase confidence, inspire creativity, and encourage artistic collaboration with the natural world. She currently teaches at the University of California at San Diego Extension’s Creative Writing Certificate Program and the School of Education’s Arts in the Curriculum Masters degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Christina is a Shamanic Reiki practitioner. She holds a BA in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, and a MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University.…
Dan Hessey
Daniel Hessey discovered the dharma in 1973 through Trungpa Rinpoche’s book Meditation in Action and moved to Tail of the Tiger (now Karmê Chöling) the following year. He has lived in Shambhala communities — Karmê Chöling, Shambhala Mountain Center, and Marpa House -- for the majority of his adult life. He served as co-director of what is now Shambhala Mountain Center from 1985 to 1992, and served on its Board of Directors for five years. He has taught the Shambhala dharma extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Before becoming an acharya, he served for two years as…
Daniel Chacón
Daniel Chacón’s latest book of fiction is a novel called The Cholo Tree (2017). He is author of Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops (2013), which won both the 2014 Pen Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and the Tejas NACCS Award for Best Book of Fiction for 2013. His collection of short stories, Unending Rooms, won the 2008 Hudson Prize. He also has a another novel, and the shadows took him, and another collection of stories called Chicano Chicanery. He is editor of the posthumous poems of Andrés Montoya, A Jury of Treesand co-editor of The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Work of José…
David McCullough
A graduate of Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, David formed McCullough Landscape Architecture as a sole proprietorship in 1999 while consulting for another firm. After wife and partner, Catherine joined the business in 2001 and became Chief Executive Officer and President in 2002; the firm became a woman-owned corporation and a certified Small Business by the State of California. With offices in San Diego and the Bay Area, McCullough creates spaces for hospitality, retail, mixed-use and institutional properties around the world. As principal landscape architect, David oversees all aspects of the design and production of firm projects at McCullough.…
Dr. Pasquale Verdicchio
Pasquale Verdicchio has taught film, literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Literature at the University of California San Diego since 1986. Author and translator, he has published in English the works of poets Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Atzeni, Alda Merini, and most recently Vivian Lamarque’s The Golden Man(Ekstasis Editions, 2016). His own poetry collections include The House is Past (Guernica, 2000) and This Nothing’s Place (Guernica, 2008). His Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature:The Denatured Wild was published in 2016 by Lexington. He is the recipient of the 2015 Muir Environmental Fellowship by Muir College, UCSD.
Drupon Lama Dorje
[ESPAÑOL] Drupon Lama Dorje nació en una pequeña aldea llamada Limi, en el Himalaya, y se hizo monje budista tradicional a los 5 años bajo el linaje Drikung Kagyu. A los 24 años hizo un retiro en solitario de cuatro años en las montañas de la India, donde se formó profundamente en el quíntuple sendero del Mahamudra y en los Seis Yogas de Naropa. Inmediatamente después de este retiro, se le asignó viajar a Chile para expandir el Dharma de Buda. Durante más de 14 años, Drupon Lama Dorje ha difundido la filosofía budista de la vida por Sudamérica y Centroamérica…
Drupon Lama Dorje
Drupon Lama Dorje was born in a small village called Limi in the Himalayas and became a traditional Buddhist monk at the age of 5 under the Drikung Kagyu lineage. At the age of 24 he entered a 4-year solo retreat in the mountains of India where he trained deeply in the five-fold path of Mahamudra and the Six Yogas of Naropa. Directly after this retreat, he was assigned to travel to Chile to expand the Buddha Dharma. For more than 14 years, Drupon Lama Dorje has spread Buddhist philosophy of life across South and Central America through diverse events,…
Emily Bower
Acharya Emily Bower started practicing in the Shambhala community in 1987, in Berkeley, CA. She began studying with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche when he came to teach in Berkeley in 1991. She served as his editor for various projects, including his first book, Turning the Mind into an Ally. She has studied kyudo with Kanjuro Shibata Sensei and is a lifelong member of the Dorje Kasung. In 1991, she joined the staff of Karme Chöling, where she lived for three years, working on publicity and marketing. She has been a professional editor since 1987 and has most recently worked full-time as an acquiring…
Erica Cohen
Erica Cohen es nativa de Nueva York y lleva más de 40 años en México. Encontró las enseñanzas de Shambhala en los años 80 y desde entonces práctica y estudio siguiendo este linaje de sabiduría. Vive en Tepoztlán, Morelos donde práctica como Psicoterapeuta con especialidad en trauma, es Guardiana de Fuego y ofrece AirBnB en su casa. Le encanta tocar el piano y salir a caminar con su perrito Choco.
Ernest Padilla
Ernest Padilla was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. His parents were migrant farm workers, and, as one of seven children, he also did his share of picking cotton, grapes, prunes, etc. in Tulare, CA growing up. He received his doctorate degree from the University of California, San Diego in English and American Literature and has taught literature, composition and mathematics at several universities and colleges throughout his 40 year career. Dr. Padilla has published poems and stories here and there and is also the publisher-editor of Lalo Press which has published mostly books of poetry by Mexican American women. …
Gabriela Córdova Novion
Gabriela inició su camino con la meditación y el Budismo en 1994 y específicamente con Shambhala en 1996. Desde 2004 ha tomado roles de liderazgo en Shambhalacalli (Tepoztlán-Cuernavaca), en la Sangha de la Ciudad de México y en Casa Werma. En 2010 recibió el reconocimiento de Maestra Shambhala.
Gaylon Ferguson
Soon after reading Meditation in Action, Gaylon heard the Vidyadhara teach several summer seminars in Vermont. In 1973, after giving a “particularly panic-stricken and disorganized ” open house talk, Gaylon joined Tail of the Tiger Buddhist Community (now Karme Choling) where he worked in the garden, set the tractor on fire, and took people into retreat. After attending the 1975 Vajradhatu Seminary, Gaylon taught briefly at The Naropa Institute, led a dathun at the now deceased Padma Jong, and finally returned to Karme Choling, first as a staff member in the practice and study department, and then as Executive Co-director. In…
Holly Gayley
Acharya Holly Gayley is an Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, having completed a Masters at Naropa University in 2000 and Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2009. She has been practicing meditation in the Shambhala tradition for more than twenty years and regularly leads meditation retreats and workshops as a senior teacher or shastri. Holly has frequently traveled to eastern Tibet for her research on contemporary Buddhist movements and enjoys trekking in the Himalayas and Rocky Mountains. Her first book, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet, came out in November 2016. For more information, visit…
Jake Lorfing
Jake Lorfing has been active in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition for over 35 years as a student, teacher, administrator, and meditation instructor. Following a career in psychiatric nursing, he now spends more time teaching contemplative photography and end of life issues, teaching others to live more fully and joyfully. Jake has taught contemplative photography around the states, Mexico, and Canada in a variety of formats. He travels extensively for photography and his photos are on display in private and public venues. His short stories and articles have been published in two anthologies of Buddhist fiction, Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree…
Janet Solyntjes
Shastri Janet Solyntjes has been a member of the Shambhala community since 1984 and teaches at Shambhala centers in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. She has taught meditation courses at Naropa University, is a senior MBSR teacher, and is co-founder of the Boulder-based Center for Courageous Living.
Joan Kling, M.S.
Joan Kling specializes in promoting peace and communication between individuals, teams and organizations. She excels in teaching self-leadership, team leadership and organizational leadership. Guided by the belief in everyone’s intrinsic, unique value, Joan works tirelessly to bring out the best in everyone she meets. Her ability to see past the complexities of the human condition to the heart of every matter is unmatched. She is a certified professional coach, trainer, and keynote speaker guiding clients to create joy and embrace abundance in their lives. Joan uses writing to help others find the light within and to give them permission to let that light…
Juan Felipe Herrera
In 2015 Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the 21st United States Poet Laureate, the first Mexican American to hold the position. In his statement of choice, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said Herrara’s poems “contain Whitman-esque multitudes that champion voices, traditions and histories, as well as a cultural perspective” that serve to illuminate our larger American identity. Herrera grew up in California as the son to migrant farmers, which he has commented strongly shaped much of his work. A Washington Post article tells the story that “As a child, Herrera learned to love poetry by singing about the Mexican…
Kim Nadel
Kim Nadel, a green lifestyle design strategist, is an award-winning, certified interior designer and LEED Accredited Professional specializing in inspired sustainable living. Kim has over 25 years experience in healthy and efficient design materials and strategies for the living environment. She co-founded Sunflower Life Projects US, a comprehensive design collaborative with wellness and sustainability in mind. Her goal is to promote and foster wellness through thoughtfully planned design within truly equitable and sustainable communities. She has consulted with several groups, including The Permaculture Society in Southern Arizona, where she worked on a variety of areas from conceptual systems design to…
Kristen Victor
Kristen Victor founded Sustainability Matters in 2009, a consulting firm, catalyzing civic ecology, a fluid pattern of relations between humans, their ecosystem and the economy. Kristen collectively transforms business from traditional methods to regenerative, long-term vibrancy. She received her higher education degree with an emphasis in Biology and continued her Design post-graduate studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. With more than 20 years of experience in design, construction and technology integration, Kristen has committed the last 10 years working within neighborhoods and communities, guiding with forward thinking leadership, defined by experiential opportunities through application-based policy, striving to influence decision makers…
Kristin Wildensee
Kristin Wildensee has had a career working in both the corporate and non-profit worlds. However, she has found her greatest purpose and passion these days committing herself to volunteer efforts to take care of our beautiful, life-giving, interconnected planet. She is passionate about causes ranging from waste reduction, endangered species protection to soil restoration. As a volunteer leader for The Climate Reality Project and Pachamama Alliance, she regularly convenes workshops on climate solutions and moderates their signature Game Changer Intensive course for participants around the globe. Kristin lives in Patzcuaro, Mexico, but also has a U.S. home base in Iowa,…
Lance Brunner
Dr. Lance Brunner is an experienced teacher in the Shambhala-Buddhist tradition, having directed Shambhala Training and contemplative arts programs and retreats for over twenty-five years, including seven “Summer Arts Dathuns” [month-long retreats] at Karme Chöling, Vermont. He combines his interests in the arts, meditation, and action in the world through his consulting and facilitation, having worked with non-profits, health professionals, businesses, leadership programs, and within prisons. A Kellogg National Fellow (1985-88) and the founding Director of the Commonwealth Fellowship Program for community leaders in Appalachia (1990-96), he has been a professor of music history at the University of Kentucky since…
Mayela Padilla Manasjan
Mayela Padilla Manasjan is the Executive Director of Casa Werma a Buddhist meditation center, podcast host of “Tiny Climate Challenge” and author of a new book of poetry, “Orange Line to Tennessee.” She is a former Adjunct Professor teaching environmental science at UC San Diego Extension. She has also served on a variety of boards dedicated to engaging, educating, and empowering communities on critical environmental and social justice issues. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Systems with an emphasis in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from the University of California San Diego and a Master of Science in…
Melinda Rothouse
Melinda Rothouse is a professional creativity coach, consultant, author, and educator, as well as a meditation and contemplative arts teacher, based in Austin, Texas. She is also a singer/songwriter/bass player. Her creative and professional work embrace a lifelong love of learning with an emphasis on journey and process. A former teacher of comparative religions, she holds a Ph.D. in psychology with a specialization in creativity studies. She is the author of two books: A Mindful Approach to Team Creativity and Collaboration: Creating a Culture of Innovation, drawing on insights from her doctoral research and her experiences working with organizational leaders and teams, published…
Patrick Larson
Patrick Larson is an Austin, Texas based photographer with a unique blend of style developed from a broad range of artistic and photographic experience. He is comfortable and relaxed in both the studio and on location. A photographer since 1980 and now a software developer, he specializes in portraiture, landscapes, weddings, and fine art photography. He is the father of two beautiful girls, his photo subjects for many years.
Pema Chödrön
Beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun, and mother, Pema Chödrön has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practicing peace in these turbulent times. She has been teaching and writing extensively for many years, including authoring the best-selling books When Things Fall Apart and The Places That Scare You. Pema first met her root teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic…
Richard John
[ESPAÑOL] Richard John, uno de los primeros alumnos de Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, ha servido como acharya para Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche durante 20 años. Completó el primer retiro de tres años en Gampo Abbey (la Abadía de Gampo) y ahora imparte cursos de meditación budista Shambhala a tiempo completo. Richard y su esposa Liz residen en Halifax, Nueva Escocia.
Richard John
Richard John, an early student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, has served as acharya for Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche for 20 years. He completed the first three-year retreat at Gampo Abbey, and now teaches Shambhala Buddhist meditation courses full time. Richard and his wife Liz reside in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Rick Merrill
RICK MERRILL is professional dancer and choreographer. He performed and taught for many years in New York City and Europe and most recently served as faculty in the Theatre and Dance Department of Western Washington University. A member of the Shambhala Buddhist community since 1974, Rick teaches meditation and embodied contemplative movement.
Sandra Ladley
Sandra Ladley is a long-time Buddhist practitioner and teacher, an interdisciplinary artist and activist, and a life-long student. Sandra teaches Buddhist, Contemplative Psychology and Creative Arts programs internationally. She is a core faculty for the Karuna Training program in Contemplative Psychology. Sandra draws on a breadth of experience as a teacher, counselor, and manager in business, mental health and creative arts settings to bring vibrancy and engagement to her teaching. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Seema Reza
Seema Reza is the author of the poetry collection A Constellation of Half-Lives and the memoir When the World Breaks Open. Seema has led writing workshops within correctional facilities, military and civilian hospitals, elementary and secondary schools, and universities. She is the CEO of Community Building Art Works, a unique arts organization that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization among a military population struggling with emotional and physical injuries. Reza’s work with veterans is featured in the 2018 HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet. She was awarded the Col John Gioia Patriot Award by the USO of Metropolitan…
Sophie Huart
Licenciada en Obstetricia, egresada de la Universidad Católica de Bélgica, atención de partos en casa desde el 2006 y acompañamiento global de la mujer embarazada y su familia. Maestra de reiki formada en Argentina y Perú por Florike Dikkers, miembro de la Asociación Usui Reiki. Artista y Arte Terapeuta formada al Movimiento Auténtico por Karin Fleisher en el Centro de Movimiento Auténtico de Argentina- CeMAAR desde el 2012. En formación a la psicología analítica. Fundadora, directora y acompañante del proyecto educativo “Semillas de vida”- Escuela Activa, en Huaraz, Perú. Compañera y mamá descubriendo los caminos de esos vínculos. Trabaja actualmente…
Stephen Vosper
Steve Vosper is a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and his son Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He has been practicing and studying the Shambhala and Buddhist paths for four decades, and has been teaching in those traditions for nearly 30 years. Mr. Vosper was the first Dean of the Shambhala School of Buddhist Studies in Boulder, and a lead teacher on the pilot teaching team for the entire Way of Shambhala curriculum. He is also a Director for the complete Shambhala Training Heart of Warriorship and Sacred Path programs. Steve is the chair of the Sakyong’s Advisory Panel on Shambhala Environments,…
Susan Gillis Chapman
Susan Gillis Chapman is an elder who has been practicing in our lineage since 1974. After the parinirvana of Trungpa Rinpoche, she made a deep dive into mahamudra practice and studied with Thrangu Rinpoche for 20 years, including 9 years at Gampo Abbey. She completed the traditional three-year retreat and went on to serve as druppon, or retreat leader, for six more years. She also completed her MA in Buddhist and Western Psychology at Naropa in 1983, which included a three-month retreat practicing Maitri Space Awareness. She now serves on the faculty of Karuna Training as well as the Green Zone…
Tim Z. Hernandez
Tim Z. Hernandez is an award winning writer, research scholar, and performer. His work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and he is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the American Book Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the International Latino Book Award. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, C-Span, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Public Radio International hailed his book, Mañana Means Heaven, as one of their top picks of the year in 2013. Hernandez was also named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America, and…
