Carolina Muriel is an artist, journalist and death doula. She covered immigration, food-and-bev and the arts for years, and now likes writing weird essays, teaching, and playing with clay. Her taller de vida, Barro y Luna, records Latin elders’ oral histories for community preservation. Carolina has attended the Tin House and Macondo writers’ workshops, and her work is in Audible, Spotify, NPR.org, California Sunday Magazine, the Undocupoets anthology “Here to Stay,” and more. She cofounded Pizza Shark, a podcast studio working toward radical inclusivity in media. They’ve won Webbys, iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, and nominations for Peabody Awards, Ambies and more. Carolina is completing an MFA in creative writing at Louisiana State University.

