From the small, transnational colonia of Vado, New Mexico, Jorge A. Hernández Jr. is a Ph.D. student specializing in Hispanic Literature within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. He received both his M.A. in Spanish and B.A. in Foreign Languages and History from New Mexico State University. His research examines both contemporary Chicana/o and Latin American literature(s) through the kaleidoscopes of Urban and Border Studies. His particular interest centers on how Chicana/o and Latino/a authors have used their literary works to navigate through the changes and displacement(s) of urban Latino/a spaces and places. He explores how the change of space/place can lead to the loss of Latino/a voices in urban environments and how the concomitant act of writing through these changes and experiencing key moments of urban transition by Chicana/o and Latino/a writers can offer a window to further situate the experience of space and place in the context of the U.S. Southwest, Latin America, and beyond. Currently, he serves as both the Assistant Coordinator and Teaching Assistant for the Spanish as a Heritage Language program at UNM. He is also the co-founder of Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Linguistica.