Giselle Stern Hernández is a Mexican-North American writer and performer.  She was born and raised in New York.  Cuernavaca, Mexico has been her home since 2001.  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. 

     Race, class, and gender — it is through these lenses that Giselle questions and creates as a writer and performer.