Carlos Hernandez (writer)

In 2021, Eva Longoria and Ben Spector's production company UnbeliEVAble Entertainment was developing a television adaptation of the first novel with Disney Branded Television.

This short story collection combines elements of science fiction, magical realism and fantasy to artfully portray the experience of straddling the liminal space between white U.S. culture and "Latinidad". The "assimilated" Latinx characters in the collection are searching for lost cultural connections; whether it is a revival of indigenous practices or a lost family member, Hernandez uses fantastic situations to explore the difficult topics of immigration and assimilation in a way that is humorous and endearing. As Joy Sanchez-Taylor notes in Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color (2021), the title story, which shares the same name as the title of the collection, highlights the tension between the indigenous practice of Santeria and Catholicism "to demonstrate the limitations of Western cultures reliance on 'rational' thought and the Western scientific method".

Hernandez's interest in game-based learning led him to co-found the CUNY Games Network and the Board Game Designers Group of New York. He has been a lead writer and a game designer on Meriwether, a computer role-playing game charting the voyage of the Lewis and Clark expedition, released in 2017 and a literary curator on the 2020 Apple Arcade game Dear Reader, a word- and literature-identification game. He is currently finalizing Negocios Infernales, a tabletop role-playing game that he co-created with C. S. E. Cooney, for Outland Entertainment.

Short story collection The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria. Rosarium Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1495607394

Novel Abecedarium: A novel in ten stories. Co-authored with Davis Schneiderman. Chiasmus Media, 2007. ISBN 978-0978549985

Hernandez earned his Ph. D. in English, with an emphasis in creative writing, from Binghamton University in 2000. He is an English professor at the City University of New York in the Borough of Manhattan Community College campus. He also teaches in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Program at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Carlos Alberto Pablo Hernandez (born January 14, 1971) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy. He is best known for the young adult novels Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, which won the 2020 Pura Belpré Award, and its sequel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe.