As an interdisciplinary poet and writer, a.l. Castañeda’s work is concerned with the inherent power of voice and the politics of naming implicit in written and spoken language. By writing through the body, she explores the fluid boundaries of identity that allow a person to be contained across languages, races, genders, and histories in relation to a landscape of contrasting borders.
She has held residencies with Detroit based organizations InsideOut Literary Arts Project and the former Detroit Future Schools, participated in workshops with Springfed Arts, the Japan Writer’s Conference, and attended the Prague Summer Program as a recipient of the Vaclav Havel Scholarship in 2014.
Currently, she is a 2018 MFAW candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
