Ana Castillo (6/15/53) is a multilingual poet, novelist, essayist, editor, feminist theorist, playwright, translator, human rights and environmental activist and visual artist.

Among accolades: Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Fuller for Lifetime Achievement, 2022; NEIU Distinguished Alumnus, 2020; PEN Oakland Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement, 2018; 2 Lambdas, fiction and non-fiction; NEA grants, fiction and poetry; Sor Juana Achievement, National Mexican Museum of Art.

Teaching includes endowed chairs, DePaul and Dominican Universities; Poet-in-Residence, Westminster College, SLC, UT, 2012; Martin Luther King Jr. Outstanding Visiting Scholar, MIT, 2008; and worldwide public poetry and writing workshops.

Seven poetry collections, most recent: My Book of the Dead, UNMP, ‘22. Novels include So Far From God and Peel My Love like an Onion. Forthcoming: Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories: HarperVia, May, ‘23.