Claudia Castro Luna

Hedgebrook Board Member 

Seattle

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, and Killing Marías. The latter two titles were shortlisted for the WA State Book Award in poetry, 2023 and 2018 respectively. Castro Luna is also the author of the chapbook This City. Her most recent non-fiction is in There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letter from a Crisis and in Memory's Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden. 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, and writes and teaches in the Seattle Metro area on unceded Duwamish lands. Watch Castro Luna's Poetry of Place talk at TEDxUofW and the PBS Newshour segment featuring her and her signature project, Seattle Poetic Grid. 

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