Many roads keep bringing me back to literature. I have approached literary writing, its practices, they way it transforms lives and thoughts, beings and bodies, for more than 15 years. My name is Lina M. Hernández and I am intrigued and lost in words. Having just finished a Ph.D. in Hispanic Caribbean literatures, I am now trying to unlearn a sterile rhetoric and to recover the vital and childish curiosity that marked my starting days as an avid reader.