Janel Pineda

Janel Pineda is a Los Angeles-born Salvadoran poet, literary scholar, and activist whose family fled the US-sponsored Salvadoran Civil War. She is a Macondista and a founding editor and translator for La Piscucha Magazine. Janel holds a BA in English from Dickinson College and is currently pursuing an MA in creative writing and education at Goldsmiths, University of London as a Marshall Scholar.