Joy Castro

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Joy Castro^[1] is the award-winning author of the recently published novels, One Brilliant Flame,^[2] and Flight Risk,^[3] a finalist^[4] for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water,^[5] which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home,^[6] which have been published in France by Gallimard's historic Série Noire; the story collection How Winter Began;^[7] the memoir The Truth Book;^[8] and the essay collection Island of Bones,^[9] which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also editor of the craft anthology Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family^[10] and the founding series editor of Machete,^[11] a series in innovative literary nonfiction at The Ohio State University Press. She served as the guest judge of CRAFT's first Creative Nonfiction Award,^[12] and her work has appeared in venues including Poets & Writers,^[11] Writer's Digest,^[13] Literary Hub,^[14] Crime Reads,^[15] The Rumpus,^[16] Ploughshares,^[17] The Brooklyn Rail,^[18] Senses of Cinema,^[19] Salon,^[20] Gulf Coast,^[21] Brevity,^[22] Afro-Hispanic Review,^[23] Seneca Review,^[24] Los Angeles Review of Books,^[25] and The New York Times Magazine.^[26] A former Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies (Latinx Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies.^[27][28]