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CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA has been an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow, the Washington State Poet Laureate, and Seattle's inaugural Civic Poet. She is the author of One River, A Thousand Voices; the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías, shortlisted for the Washington State 2018 Book Award in poetry; and the chapbook This City. Her most recent nonfiction can be found in the anthology There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Born in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children.
""Castro Luna moves between litany and lamentation with a memorable grace."" --Tod Marshall, author of Bugle ""Claudia Castro Luna, both poetically and physically, settles spaces that were unclaimed by Latinos."" --Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, author of A Most Improbable Life
