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Luanne Castle

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Born

in southwest Michigan, The United States

July 20

Website

http://www.luannecastle.com

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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, with a starred Kirkus review, is available 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, ...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
	Our Wolves by Luanne Castle (Goodreads Author), Alien Buddha (Contributor) 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — 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
	Kin Types 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings	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
	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), Frank Prem (Goodreads Author), Colleen M. Chesebro (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 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
	Rooted and Winged 4.69 avg rating — 13 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
	166 Palms - A Literary Anthology by James Burnham, Victoria Grant, Kristine Mietzner it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 6 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
	Scrap: Salvaging a Family: A Memoir in Flash 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2026	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
	Submerged (Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine, issue no. XV) by Juliette Sebock (Goodreads Author) (Editor), A.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Aditi Krishnakumar (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
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Scrap is a story of forgiveness and making peace with the past. It will resonate with readers who appreciate introspective writing, stories about healing and complicated family relationships.

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One of the characters of Scrap is my little cat Toby. He was an all black cat, and the

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Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

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“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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