Trinidad Escobar is an author, poet, and cartoonist active in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an educator at the California College of the Arts.

She is of Visayan descent and was adopted by a Filipino-American family in Milpitas, California in the United States of America.

[citation needed] Escobar cites an early interest in witchcraft, horror films, mythology, astrophysics, and veganism.

[citation needed] Creators who influence Escobar's style include Octavia Butler, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Stephen King, Lynda Barry, Gary Larson, and Aaron McGruder.

The Milpitas Library, which features in some of Escobar's work, exhibits her Filipino-American memorial mural in the teen book section.

[citation needed] Her vision is to diversify as well as decolonize comics and to continue indigenous talk story in a new medium.