Los Angeles native, Trina Calderón is a filmmaker, journalist and author. She is a Film Independent Project: Involve screenwriting fellow. 

Trina has worked with many incredible visual artists writing articles, essays, books and museum and gallery exhibitions, often contributing to Juxtapoz Magazine. Her collection of essays on the origins of American graffiti writers is published in WALL WRITERS: Graffiti in its Innocence and she is the associate producer of the companion feature documentary. With music journalist Ryan Bray, she researched, wrote and edited the large history book, 9:30: A Time And A Place about the infamous DC nightclub. In 2024, she published her first short story collection, Once Upon a Time on Grateful Dead Tour, based on her real-life counterculture adventures. She recently launched a new long-form Los Angeles artist interview site called The Burning Giraffe.