Luanne Castle

Luanne Castle’s memoir, Scrap: Salvaging a Family, is a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and has earned a starred Kirkus review. Her story, “Garden Seasons,” was selected by Diane Seuss for Best Microfiction 2026. She has published four award-winning poetry collections, and her ekphrastic flash and poetry collection Hunting the Cosmos is forthcoming from Shanti Arts in fall 2026. Luanne has been a Fellow at the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside (PhD); Western Michigan University (MA, MFA); and Stanford University (Certificate). She lives with her husband and two cats in Arizona along a wash that wildlife use as a thoroughfare.