Debra Herrick is the editor and co-founder of Lum Art Magazine, the associate editorial director of University of California, Santa Barbara’s The Current and magazine, and serves on the board of trustees for the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. She is a 2023 Individual Artist Fellow (established) for the Central California Region. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, where she completed her doctoral studies in Latin American literature before pursuing a career in writing and publishing. She is the past managing editor of Coastal View News and former senior editorial manager of the Journal of Mexican Studies, published by University of California Press. Her writing/photographs have also appeared in Artillery Art Magazine, The Santa Barbara Independent, Noozhawk, Réplica21 and La Nación, as well as several academic anthologies. Debra has held teaching positions at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Clara University, University of Miami and la Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juárez de Oaxaca and was guest curator at Santa Barbara Center for Arts Science and Technology.