sentences:  Herrera's experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work, such as the children's book "Calling the Doves", which won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 1997.Community and art have always been part of what has driven Herrera, beginning in the mid-1970s, when he was director of the "Centro Cultural de la Raza", an occupied water tank in Balboa Park that had been converted into an arts space for the community.Herrera’s publications include fourteen collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and picture books for children, with twenty-one books in total in the last decade.