Carolina is a Brazilian American writer and multimedia artist. Growing up across languages and geographies is an inheritance that continues to animate her work. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, she came of age in Brazil’s punk movement as both artist and organizer, and has spent decades shaping narrative across media, the arts, and youth-serving organizations in Brazil and the United States. Carolina is currently completing her debut narrative nonfiction manuscript, Other Bastards. Originally from Brazil, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Represented by:
Noelle Falcis-Math & Eva Oakes at Transatlantic Agency
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Carolina é escritora, artista multimídia e fundadora de projetos sociais. Seu trabalho atravessa a não ficção literária, o cinema e outras mídias, com raízes na cena punk brasileira. Atualmente finaliza seu livro de estreia, Outros Bastardos. Vive hoje no noroeste dos Estados Unidos.
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Recent Essays:
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“Floating Down, Unafraid” - The Offing - on shame and motherhood, marriage and risk.
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“Spot it Got it: Vying for Legitimacy in my Americas” - The Acentos Review - on language as belonging.
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“My Atoms Were There, My Atoms Are Here” - Cagibi Journal - on formative homes and particle accelerators.
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“On Moving On - Women’s Autobiographical Writing as an Act of Letting Go” - The Artisanal Writer
Selected Work
Artist residencies include Hypatia-in-the-Woods (2020/23) and Caldera (2018/19). Honors and grants include the Women in Film Emerging Latina Filmmaker Award and an Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant.
Projects include the documentary Viva Viva, a portrait of São Paulo punks, and I See You, a layered sound story of a gentrifying block. Her work has screened and aired at Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), the Chicago International Film Festival, In-Edit Brasil, CBGB Festival, the Curitiba International Film Festival, public radio, and others. Carolina has also worked as a segment producer for public television, an art director at MTV Brasil, and an art educator at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts and the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo.
She co-founded and served as Executive Director of CultureSeed (2018–2025), a youth-serving nonprofit providing long-term outdoor immersion and mental health programs. Her prior nonprofit leadership and communications work includes roles with organizations focused on food security, youth development, and the arts.
Carolina is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese and English, with advanced proficiency in Spanish and French. She holds an MFA in Experimental Film and a BA in Film.
