Bridget Herrera graduated from MALS in 2015 with a focus in creative writing. Delving into the genre of memoir for her master’s thesis, Root Awakenings explored her Caribbean roots through an interweaving of landscape, identity, and colonial attitudes that formed her lived experience. Currently she continues to finesse her memoir with the aspiration of future publication. This past year, Taino Myths, winner of Dartmouth’s Book Arts Prize for Best Bound Book in 2012, was recently on exhibition at the University of Otago’s De Beer Gallery. Her poetry submission, Hourglass, first conceptualized in Prof. Sydney Lea’s class, illustrates the emotional void faced when the ‘biological clock’
