Claudia Castro Luna
Claudia Castro Luna is an award-winning poet and writer, an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019-2020), 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, Killing Marías, and the chapbook This City. Castro Luna’s memoir, The Flowers Along the Way is forthcoming from Curbstone, fall 2026. Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna lives in English and Spanish. Watch her TEDxUofW Poetry of Place talk and the PBS Newshour segment featuring her signature project, Seattle Poetic Grid. Follow @claudiacastroluna
Where to find me at the festival
May 31, 2026 -
Conjuring & Conjugating: Siguanabes in Future Tense
