Unveiling Secrets: Claudia Castro Luna Reveals the Hidden Story Behind The Flowers Along the Way
Interviewed by Sayantani Roy
If you’re a writer in the Seattle area, chances are you’ve attended a reading or workshop conducted by poet and essayist Claudia Castro Luna, a pillar in the literary community.
She is a former Washington State Poet Laureate, a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and Seattle’s Inaugural Civic Poet. Her book Cipota under the Moon was a finalist for the 2023 Washington State Book Awards. During the pandemic I took her class titled “Arboreal Affinities” from the comfort and anonymity of a Zoom room, but her words about creating poetry through nurturing a relationship with trees have stayed with me. I am very fortunate to have crossed paths with her as a cohort member of the Jack Straw Writers Program, of which she is the curator this year. It is truly an honor to interview her about her new book, The Flowers Along the Way (Curbstone Press; Sept., 2026).
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