Janel Pineda

Janel Pineda is a Salvadoran poet and the author of Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2021). 

In 2025, Pineda was named a Writing Freedom Fellow. She is also the recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a Marshall Scholarship, a NALAC NFA Artist Grant, and a California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.