{"id":90678,"date":"2022-12-15T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literary-arts.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=90678"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:13:01","slug":"joy-castro","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/literary-arts.org\/bio\/joy-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted1\"><b>Joy Castro<\/b> is the award-winning author of <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Flight Risk<\/i>, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Hell or High Water<\/i>, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Nearer Home, <\/i>which have been published in France by Gallimard\u2019s historic S\u00e9rie Noire; the story collection <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">How Winter Began<\/i>; the memoir <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">The Truth Book<\/i>; and the essay collection <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Island of Bones<\/i>, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also editor of the craft anthology <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Family Trouble<\/i><i class=\"ContentPasted1\">: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family<\/i> and the founding series editor of Machete, a series in innovative literary nonfiction at The Ohio State University Press. She served as the guest judge of <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">CRAFT<\/i>\u2018s first Creative Nonfiction Award, and her work has appeared in venues including <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Ploughshares<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">The Brooklyn Rail<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Senses of Cinema<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Salon<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Gulf Coast<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Brevity<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Afro-Hispanic Review,<\/i> <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Seneca Review<\/i>, <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i>, and <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">The<\/i> <i class=\"ContentPasted1\">New\u00a0York Times Magazine<\/i>. 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.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Castro is the award-winning author of Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":90679,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"bio_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joy Castro Bio - Literary Arts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literary-arts.org\/bio\/joy-castro\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joy Castro Bio - Literary Arts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joy Castro is the award-winning author of Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; 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