Giselle Stern Hernández is a Mexican-North American writer, activist, and performer.  She was born and raised in New York.  Cuernavaca, Mexico was her home from 2001-2011. She received her B.A. in English from Hunter College CUNY, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.  In 2005, she was awarded a Zora Neale Hurston Award from Naropa.  She was also a participant in a playwriting group that was created from a Ford Foundation Multicultural Playwriting Grant.  Giselle has performed her solo shows in Mexico and the United States since 2007. She blogs regularly at thedeporteeswife.blogspot.com

    Race, class, gender, and sexuality: It is through the critical analysis of these lenses that Giselle creates and questions as an artist and activist.