Book Editor Michelle Herrera on Finding Your Voice By Not Fitting In

04/05/21 • 24 min

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Growing up, she was so close to her family, it was unimaginable she’d ever even go away for college. But a curious mind and an adventurous heart freed her to “dream wild” and create her own “fantasy version of my life.”

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