213:: "A recurring theme in her work reveals a commitment to her race regarding the avatars of their current existence and a past that is also filled with stigmas.... It is also important to point out that she was part of the repressed Grupo El Puente literary and publishing group, which in the 1960s attempted to create a space for art and literature beyond the confines of officialdom. This caused her to be marginalized, as happened with almost all of the group’s members. Yet, despite the obstacles...Georgina Herrera did not opt for exile or silencing her woes. She persevered in her desire to defend her principled position—and she won."
249:(published by Cubanabooks, a US-based non-profit company specialising in Cuban women's literature), won the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book. Herrera said of the collection, whose title references
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