New York Times Bestseller Carlos Hernandez is the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium, 2016), the novel Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Disney Hyperion, 2019), which won the 2019 Pura Belpré Award from the American Library Association, and its sequel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (2020). He’s also written dozens of short stories, poems, and works of drama, usually in the SFF mode, which have found homes in magazines such as Uncanny, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and many others. Recently, he’s written several one-shots for Marvel Comics, both in-print and in digital formats, and just completed a three-story arc for them for the Strange Academy line.
Carlos earned his Ph. D. in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from Binghamton University in 2000. He is Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches Composition, Creative Writing, Science Fiction, and other courses at BMCC. Carlos has been a Visiting Professor of English at Western Colorado University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, and more regularly teaches graduate classes at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he runs courses in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Program. His academic interests have centered around game-based learning in postsecondary environments; since 2008, he has worked extensively in game writing and game design.
He has served as lead writer and a game designer on the CRPG Meriwether, as a writer and designer for the installation art of Mary Miss, and as literary curator on the Apple Arcade game Dear Reader, among other video games. As a co-founder of the CUNY Games Network and of the Board Game Designers Group of New York, he’s contributed to the development of many board and card games, both educational and commercial. Most recently, he and his wife, award-winning author C. S. E. Cooney, have successfully Kickstarted their GM-less roleplaying game Negocios Infernales, which will be published by Outland Entertainment in 2024.
You can learn more about Carlos Hernandez on his website hernandooney.com. Carlos is feeling disheartened about social media, but you can find him on Instagram @writeteachplay.
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