Claudia Castro Luna

Claudia Castro Luna is an award-winning poet and writer, WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). She is the author of Green the World, One River, A Thousand Voices, Cipota Under the Moon, and Killing Marías. Her most recent nonfiction is a memoir, The Flowers Along the Way (Curbstone/Northwestern U Press). In the Fall of 2026 Floating Bridge press is honoring the 10^th anniversary of Castro Luna’s chapbook This City and reissuing it in a bilingual edition translated by the author: This City/Esta Ciudad. Castro Luna was born in El Salvador and arrived in the US in 1981 alongside her family fleeing a civil war. Watch Castro Luna’s Poetry of Place talk at TEDxUofW and the PBS Newshour segment featuring her and her signature project, Seattle Poetic Grid. Follow @claudiacastroluna.

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