Matthew Frye-Castillo is a writer, educator, and editorial consultant based in New York City with roots in Southern California and Southcentral Alaska. He was a long-time arts writer for The Anchorage Press and the arts editor of The Red Hook Star-Revue. His journalism has appeared in The Anchorage Daily News, HuffPost, ESPN, Chance, and Bushwick Daily.

He is the author of One Headlight: A Memoir (Cirque Press), and his personal essays, criticism, poetry, and fiction have appeared in Best Gay Stories, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Paris Review Daily, OPOSSUM, Epiphany: A Literary Journal, Lambda Literary, Newtown Literary, Understory, Little Patuxent Review, The Lindenwood Review, and Worn in New York, which was featured in the Netflix adaptation, Worn Stories.

His creative work has been supported by the Hertog Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Virginia Center for the Arts, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Matthew holds an MFA from Hunter College and studied at Columbia University, Clark University, and The University of Alaska, Anchorage. He is a tenured CCE Lecturer of Professional Writing at Lehman College, City University of New York. Find him across social media @matthewsyntax907

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Matthew Frye-Castillo is a writer from Alaska & California. He the author of One Headlight: A Memoir and a tenured CCE Lecturer at Lehman College, City University of New York.

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