Luanne Castle

Poet

Phoenix, AZ
Arizona US
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Author's Bio

Luanne Castle’s Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, and Best of the Net-nominated poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, Grist, Verse Daily, Saranac Review, Pleiades, Fourteen Hills, American Journal of Poetry, Bending Genres, The Ekphrastic Review, Thimble, MacQueen’s Quinterly, One Art, Lothlorien, South 85, Roi Fainéant, River Teeth, Flash Boulevard, Sheila-Na-Gig, Your Impossible Voice, Storyteller Poetry Journal, and is forthcoming in Moon City. She has published four award-winning poetry collections. Her hybrid memoir-in-flash will be published by ELJ Editions in 2026. Luanne lives with her husband and four cats in Arizona along a wash that wildlife use as a thoroughfare.

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: Jul 25, 2025