Poetry · 2024–2025 FIRST PLACE IN POETRY · UTEP BILINGUAL CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS University of Texas at El Paso Herbario is a poetry collection recognized with First Place in Poetry at the 2024 UTEP Bilingual Creative Writing Awards and later published in Rio Grande Review. Herbario approaches memory through images of preservation, transformation, and the natural world. The poems move between personal experience, objects, bodies, and landscape, treating memory as something that can be collected and observed, but never fully preserved unchanged. The collection explores the fragile relationship between what remains and what is lost, allowing images to function as…