Carlos Hernandez

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. Career 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 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. 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. Personal life Hernandez lives in Queens, New York, with his wife, the World Fantasy Award author C. S. E. Cooney.