Quique Aviles is a poet, performer, film producer, director, teacher, and community scholar. Originally from El Salvador, he has dedicated his life to documenting the stories of everyday people from immigrant, Black, and poor communities and bringing them to life through poetry, performance, and film. His poetry has been featured on NPR’s Latino USA and This I Believe, and in the anthologies How I Learned English, Al Pie de la Casa Blanca, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writers in the US.

In addition to co-directing The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World, Quique was featured in La Manplesa, a documentary about the 1991 riots in Washington DC’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.