FROM: Blog Talk Radio

This week’s episode of Poetrunner features Carolina Rivera Escamilla—Educator, writer, actor, and documentarian—Born in El Salvador. Exiled in Canada in the mid 1980s. Organize events as a cultural promoter in Los Angeles since the 1990s. 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, as well as in the Migrant Anthology, Somewhere We Are Humans By HarperCollins press. The Broad Museum, among others. Her book of short stories, entitled …after… was published in 2015.World Stage Press.

Fellow of the Pen America Emerging Voices Program. In November 2019, Rivera Escamilla was invited as a poet and speaker to present her work at a “gallery talk event” as a complement to the Shirin Neshat’s photography and art film exhibition at The Broad Museum. In March 2015, she was invited to speak as a writer, cultural leader, and artist to the European Parliament at the International Women’s Conference: Women for Change, Change for Women in Brussels, Belgium. 

Rivera Escamilla is the director, writer, and producer of the documentary “Manlio Argueta, Poets and Volcanoes,” She is working on a novel and a book of poetry for theater.

In her writing she tries to broaden the horizons of the reading public with regards to its understanding of Latin America’s original and diverse themes. She brings Latin America to life for both English and Spanish-speaking reading audiences, by bringing into view stories from her own culture that stand in contrast to Hollywood stereotypes and to other distortions about them. Listen to Interview Here