Daniel Hernandez is a journalist, essayist, editor, and foreign correspondent. He is author of Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the 21st Century, a first-person immersive examination of youth subcultures (2011). Daniel covered the drug war in Mexico as a reporter for the L.A. Times and as Latin American bureau chief for VICE News. His journalism and non-fiction writing, ranging from food to politics, have appeared in The Guardian, Slake, Gatopardo, Highline, Art in America, on National Public Radio, BBC News, Swallow, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, among others. At MacDowell, Daniel arrived with three unfinished short stories; leaving with a completed structure and character scheme for a novel, combining two of those stories, setting aside the third for later. He wrote 50+ pages. Wrote an essay, "Writing Against the Rules," about moving between nonfiction and fiction at MacDowell, and developed a concept to release the novel as a spoken audio work.
Daniel Hernandez
Studios
Wood
Daniel Hernandez worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…