Carolina Rivera Escamilla is a writer, poet, actress, and filmmaker in Los Angeles, California. Born in El Salvador and trained in theater arts, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied Spanish Literature. She went into exile in Canada in the 1980s. She is a Pen America Emerging Voices Fellow. Her first book of short stories, titled ...after..., was published in 2015 (Worlds Stage Press). Her first book of poetry, In a Corner of Your Country, was published in 2023 (Bellucci, palms & Carmichael. LLC Press). The Spanish version, En una Esquina de tu País, was published in March 2024 by Poetry Ambassador Press.  She is also the director, screenwriter, and producer of the documentary "Manlio Argueta, Poets, and Volcanoes". Her publications include Collateral Damage, Women Who Write About War Anthology, University of Virginia Press, Migrant Anthology, Somewhere We Are Humans, Harper Collins Press, The Bomb Literary Magazine, and Altadena Poetry Review Anthology, Golden Foothills Press, among others www.carolinariveraescamilla.com [2]