Castillo, Ana
Ana Castillo
writer
Ana Castillo is a distinguished poet, author, editor, playwright, translator, and independent scholar. She holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Bremen, Germany. Dr. Castillo has penned several award-winning, best-selling titles, including The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), My Father was a Toltec (1988 and 2004), Sapogonia (1990), So Far from God (1993), and Give it to Me (2016). In 2020, she received the Northeastern Illinois University Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Throughout her teaching career, she has held numerous residencies and endowed chairs, serving on the faculty with the Bread Loaf Summer Program at Middlebury College, holding the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University, and working in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Scholar post at MIT. She currently resides in New Mexico.
