MATTHEW FRYE CASTILLO is an Alaskan/NYC creative writer and Lecturer in the English Department of Lehman College, City University of New York. His essays, criticism, poetry, and fiction have appear...view moreMATTHEW FRYE CASTILLO is an Alaskan/NYC creative writer and Lecturer in the English Department of Lehman College, City University of New York. His essays, criticism, poetry, and fiction have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Anchorage Daily News, The Paris Review Daily, Lambda Literary, Epiphany: a Literary Journal, OPOSSUM, Best Gay Stories, and Newtown Literary. As a journalist, he was a regular contributor to The Anchorage Press and The Red Hook Star-Revue. He holds an MFA from Hunter College and studied at Columbia University and The University of Alaska, Anchorage. He lives in Astoria, Queens, with his partner. Contact: matthewfryecastillo.comview less