“Carolina Rivera Escamilla is a writer, performer, filmmaker, and educator. Born in El Salvador, she was granted political asylum in Canada in 1985. Four years later, as the Berlin Wall fell and the guerillas of El Salvador made their final offensive, Carolina joined the massive migration of Salvadoran refugees from civil war and eventually landed in Los Angeles where she could be more involved with the culture and politics of her community. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing at University of California, Los Angeles. A Fellow in the PEN America Emerging Voices Program. She has been published in Analecta Literary Arts Journal, Texas Austin University, Hostos Review CUNY University, Pen America/ Strange Cargo, Anthology. Collateral Damage “Women Who Write About War” Anthology, University of Virginia Press, among others and is the writer, director, and producer of the documentary: Manlio Argueta, Poets and Volcanoes.