Sebastian Castillo

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]

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]

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

  1. ^ "Sebastian Castillo". Poets & Writers. July 9, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  2. ^ "Review | The narrator of this novel is trained in — and ruined by — philosophy". The Washington Post. July 26, 2025. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  3. ^ "'Fresh, Green Life' by Sebastian Castillo". Los Angeles Review of Books. May 28, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  4. ^ Alpern, Emma; Vojdani, Jasmine (June 2, 2025). "8 New Books You Should Read This June". Vulture. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  5. ^ "Sebastian Castillo's Book Notes music playlist for his novel Fresh, Green Life". largeheartedboy.com. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  6. ^ "Hecho En Venezuela: The Private Poetics of Narrative, Memory, and Lies". Electric Literature. May 17, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  7. ^ "SALMON". JOYLAND PUBLISHING. April 28, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  8. ^ "Local Favorite by Sebastian Castillo". NY Tyrant. August 24, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  9. ^ "Interview with Sebastian Castillo". The Journal. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  10. ^ Sovinski, Theodore (July 31, 2025). "Vow of Silence: On Sebastian Castillo's 'Fresh, Green Life'". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  11. ^ "Sebastian Castillo's "Fresh, Green Life"". Los Angeles Review of Books. July 25, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  12. ^ Wayne, Teddy (June 10, 2025). "Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers". Literary Hub. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  13. ^ "Nothing Impossible Happens". The Oxonian Review. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
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