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/