Saúl Hernández is a queer writer who was raised by former undocumented parents. Saúl is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. He's the winner of both the 2022 Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize judged by Joy Priest & the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Victoria Chang. His debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is out now. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize & Best of The Net. Saúl's work is featured in American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Literary Hub, Columbia Journal, Pleiades, Split This Rock & elsewhere. He's a Macondista, a 2021 Tin House Alum, & a 2024 Lambda Literary Fellow.

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INSIGHT

In The Name of Survival, Tricks, & Selena Quintanilla

By SAúL HERNáNDEZ

When you have kept a secret most of your life you learn to escape into different realms of possibilities.