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Sebastian Castillo
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Sebastian Castillo is a writer and teacher born in Caracas, Venezuela and currently based in Philadelphia, PA.[1][2] His 2025 novel Fresh, Green Life was the 2025 Los Angeles Review of Books Summer Book Club Pick.[3][4][5]
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Career
Sebastian Castillo teaches at Temple University and has written for publications such as Electric Literature,[6] JOYLAND,[7] and the New York Tyrant.[8] He has been shortlisted for BOMB's Fiction Contest.[9] Castillo's work has been described as autofictional and surrealist.[10][11][12]
In The Oxonian Review, Marie Ungar describes Fresh, Green Life as a "parody of and love letter to academic life" grappling with the "worth of writing and thinking" given economic alienation and existential absurdity.[13]
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Works
Full length works
- Castillo, Sebastian. Fresh, Green Life. Soft Skull, 2025.
- Castillo, Sebastian. SALMON. Shabby Doll House, 2023.
- Castillo, Sebastian. Not I. Word West, 2020.
- Castillo, Sebastian. 49 Venezuelan Novels. Bottlecap Press, 2017.
Chapbooks
- Castillo, Sebastian. The Zoo of Thinking. Smooth Friend, 2024.
References
External links
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