Biography

Carolina Cardona was born on March 20th 1976 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. She attended Catholic school until her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1991. Back in Mayagüez in 1994, she was admitted to the University of Puerto Rico where she pursued a Bachelor¹s Degree in English Literature with an emphasis on British authors. She graduated with honors in 1998 and in 1999 was admitted to the Comparative Literature Graduate Program at UPR in San Juan where she obtained a Master¹s Degree in Comparative Literature.

Her interests include 19th century literature, Romantic, Victorian and Gothic novels, as well as Arthuriana and authors like Edgar Allan Poe, the Latin American Modernists, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Leopoldo Lugones.

In 2001 Carolina moved to Washington D.C. and later settled permanently in Miami where she now lives with her husband. For five years Carolina enjoyed worldwide readership as a fashion and entertainment journalist for VANIDADES, the most established and prestigious Spanish-language fashion magazine in the United States and Latin America, before entering the fabulous and intoxicating world of OCEAN DRIVE ESPAÑOL, as Executive Editor.

Carolina has written various theatrical scripts, poetry and scholarly works on Cuban author Jose Martí as well as the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite painters in Hispanic American Modernism. Niñas de azul is her first novel.