DAVID ALBERTO FERNÁNDEZ(USA / Cuba) is a poet based in Takoma Park, Maryland. His bilingual poetry collection Mundo se consumo/World consumes itself (Rockville, 2025) has captured the attention of readers and critics alike. A lover of words, ideas, and books, David was born in Miami, Florida, in 1972 to Cuban parents. He studied Philosophy at Florida International University, where he earned a degree in Library Science from the Catholic University of America.
He is the author of the novel Alexstasia (Washington, DC, 1997) and has translated and edited two nonfiction works in English: Anarchism in Cuba (Tucson, 2001) and Proof of Contact (Miami, 2004). He published his first collection of poetry, Flowers beyond here (Washington, DC, 2020), at the height of the pandemic. He is currently the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and is also the co-founder and co-curator of the Beltway Café, a seasonal poetry series and literary salon meeting at the MLK Library in the heart of Washington, D.C., since 2023. For the past two decades, he has also proudly served as a librarian at the largest library in the world.