Lisa Lee Herrick is an award-winning writer, artist, community organizer, and media professional who helped produce the film, The Hmong and The Secret War, now available online at PBS.org. She is a former television executive and award-nominated news journalist, and a founding member of the LitHop literary festival. She is writing a family memoir about the inheritance and aftermath of trauma, a cookbook, and two graphic novels.
This is what my mother doesn’t want me to see: the death rattle in a forbidden room. This is what she doesn’t want me to know: how one life is sacrificed for another to live.