Janel Pineda is a Los-Angeles born Salvadoran poet, educator, and the author of Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books 2021). As a Marshall Scholar, she holds dual master’s degrees in Creative Writing Education and Latin American Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Cambridge respectively. She is currently pursuing a PhD at UCLA, where her research focuses on Central American poetics and the liberatory capacities of poetry for Central American communities.
