Caracas, Venezuela, actualmente en Boston, MA, Estados Unidos. Poeta, The Farewell Light, traductora de poetas portugueses, locutora y productora multimedia. Curadora de Poesiaudio y Editora Asociada en Arrowsmith Press, Boston, Estados Unidos. Editora Asociada en Mercurius Magazine, Londres, Reino Unido. New England Poetry Club, Board Members. Sundara Ramaswamy Prize, 2021. Mass Poetry Community Award, 2023.
Creadora del site lamajadesnuda.com : Premio Bienal de Radio Aquiles Cortina, 1998, Premio; Lo mejor de Punto.com, 2005. Venezuela. Premio WSA Capítulo Venezuela, 2007. Premio Internacional: World Summit Awards, 2011. (Categoría: Culture and Heritage). Con una colección de voces de más de mil poetas de todo el mundo.
Conductora del Programa de Radio dedicado a la poesía; La Maja Desnuda, con 34 años de emisiones ininterrumpidas, comenzó en 1988 por La Emisora Cultural de Caracas 97.7 FM y actualmente se transmite por UPV Radio 102.5 FM en Valencia, España.
Nidia Hernández was born in Venezuela, and has been living in the US since 2018, (in Boston since 2020). She is a poet and translator of Portuguese poetry, editor, broadcaster, poetry curator, and radio producer. Nidia directs the editorial project: La maja desnuda, with an impressive website; lamajadesnuda.com, that includes a collection of the best poets, that focuses on the voices of many different poets, which won the 2011 the World Summit Awards WSA prize for Cultural Heritage. She curates Poesiaudio A collection of Latin American poetry in English and Spanish in which we can hear the voices of the Latin American poets themselves. (Arrowsmith Press), and she isassociate editor of Arrowsmith Press. Sundara Ramaswamy Prize 2021, for her edition of “The Land of Mild Light”, selected poems of Venezuelan Rafael Cadenas. The selection’s translators include Robert Pinsky, Sophie Cabot Black, Carolyn Forché, Shara McCallum and Forrest Gander. In 2021 the City of Boston and the English Works Campaign, awarded her a Certificate of Recognition; “For her exemplary leadership in support of English language training for immigrants in the City of Boston.” She edited in 2022 an anthology; The Invisible Borders of Time; Five Female Latin American Poets. She is a contributor for the art magazine: Mercurius, and has presented works drawn from the 34 years of her radio program (also called La maja desnuda) which has more than 1,768 broadcasts. Currently, she is broadcasting the program through UPV Radio 102.5 FM in Valencia, Spain. In 2023 she was invited to serve on the board of the New England Poetry Club and was deserving of Mass Poetry Community Award, 2023.
You can order The Farewell Light, (published by Arrowsmith Press, 2024), her most recent collection of poems.
