Luanne Castle

Poet

Phoenix, AZ
Arizona US
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Author's Bio

Luanne Castle’s 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, 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, and Ginosko. She has published four award-winning poetry collections. Her hybrid flash memoir, Scrap: Salvaging a Family, is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2026.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Rooted and Winged (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
,
Doll God (Kelsay Books, 2015)
Chapbooks:
Our Wolves (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
,
Kin Types (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Prizes won: 

2023 Book Excellence Award Winner, Rooted and Winged

2023 Best Book Awards First Runner-up, Our Wolves

2018 Eric Hoffer Finalist, Kin Types

2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Doll God

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Raised in: 
Kalamazoo, MI
Michigan
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Last update: Nov 08, 2025