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Luanne Castle

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in southwest Michigan, The United States

July 20

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

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Plath, Lorde, Whitman, Jackson, Poe

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Luanne Castle’s hybrid flash memoir, Scrap: Salvaging a Family is available for pre-order from ELJ Editions. Her story, “Garden Seasons,” was selected for Best Microfiction 2026. Her 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, Moon City, Moon Park, 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 ...more

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	Doll God 4.69 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	What Sort of Fuckery Is This? by Dianne Pearce (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bill Ayres, Maureen McVeigh 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry Treasures 4: In Touch with Nature by Kaye Lynne Booth (Goodreads Author), Robbie Cheadle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colleen Chesebro 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Luanne Castle (?)

“Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing
is immune.”
― Luanne Castle, Doll God

tags: inspirational, philosophical, poetry, spiritual

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“[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: inspirational, memoir, philosophical, political

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“The tongues of hell are dull.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: illness, poetry, poetry-quote, poetry-quotes

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“But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

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