Luanne Castle’s ekphrastic poetry and microfiction collection, Hunting the Cosmos (Shanti Arts), inspired by the art of Remedios Varo, launches November 10, 2026. Her hybrid flash memoir, Scrap: Salvaging a Family from ELJ Editions, is Best Memoir in the Hollywood Book awards, a finalist in the Next Generation Indies, and earned a starred Kirkus review. Her story, “Garden Seasons,” was selected for Best Microfiction 2026 by Diane Seuss. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, River Teeth, Your Impossible Voice, JMWW, Grist, Fourteen Hills, Verse Daily, Disappointed Housewife, Lunch Ticket, Saranac Review, Pleiades, Cleaver, Moon City, Moon Park, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bending Genres, BULL, The Mackinaw, The Ekphrastic Review, Phoebe, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Gone Lawn, Burningword, Superstition Review, One Art, Roi Fainéant, Dribble Drabble, Flash Boulevard, O:JA&L, Sheila-Na-Gig, Thimble, Antigonish Review, Longridge, Paragraph Planet, Six Sentences, Gooseberry Pie, Switch, MasticadoresUSA, and Ginosko. She has published four award-winning poetry collections.
Her mixed-media collage art has been showcased at Rogue Agent, anti-Heroin Chic, Ink in Thirds, Watershed Review, Wildscape, Mad Swirl, Raw Lit, and Thimble. 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 (MFA); and Stanford University (Certificate). Luanne lives with her husband and cats in Arizona along a wash that wildlife use as a thoroughfare. https://www.luannecastle.com/
Hi Luanne, I’m a friend of Rudri’s and I learned about you through her (I was the one she tagged on her writing process post). I’d been meaning to come by for some time now and I look forward to reading through your posts!
Well, here it is almost three years later and I’m finally responding. I am so sorry. For some reason, I haven’t been getting my “Behind the screen” comment notifications! So HI CECILIA!
Haha, I love that you responded, Luanne!!
Your blog is so beautiful as is your writing.
Commented on your blog instead ;).
The memoir just has to be an interesting read! Nice to meet you, Luane. 🙂
Hi Luanne! Love your blog and your writing is wonderful. Thanks for stopping by little food blog! Hope you’re getting some sun in California (or Arizona!). It’s pretty cold in Melbourne 🙂 Chrissy
I used to work for the National Solid Wastes Management Association. Garbage men. I can relate completely.
Hah, I just saw this. Beautiful!
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Wonderful blog! Thanks for following mine. 🙂
Bravo, Luanne on all your wonderful accomplishments!!!!
I’m honored by your views on my blog! Thanks so much!!!
I can tell you really care about your blog because it really shows 🙂.
What an attractive blog you have here!