Matthew Frye-Castillo

(he/him)

Lecturer of Professional Writing & Creative Writer

Education

B.A. English literature and psychology, University of Alaska Anchorage

M.F.A. Creative Writing, Hunter College CUNY

Certificate in Publishing, Columbia University

Certificate in Business Writing, University of Colorado Boulder

Publications

Frye-Castillo, Matthew (2025) “Live in Fragments,” The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose: Vol. 1: Iss. 15, Article 2.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/lindenwood-review/vol1/iss15/2

Frye-Castillo, Matthew (2025) “Finding Héctor,” Little Patuxent Review: Issue 37: Winter 2025. https://littlepatuxentreview.org/

Frye-Castillo, Matthew. 2024. “History and the Art of Queer Recovery.” Prism & Pen (Medium), October 2024. https://medium.com/prismnpen/history-and-the-art-of-queer-recovery-0404451c1cda.

Frye-Castillo, Matthew. 2024. “The Daniels: Part Two.” Epiphany Magazine, September 6, 2024. https://epiphanyzine.com/features/2024/8/29/the-daniels-part-two-by-matthew-frye-castillo.

Frye-Castillo, Matthew. 2024. “The Daniels.” Epiphany Magazine, October 11, 2023. https://epiphanyzine.com/features/the-daniels-by-matthew-frye-castillo.

Frye-Castillo, Matthew. 2022. “Edgar Gomez’s High-Risk Homosexual.” Lambda Literary, March 2022. https://lambdaliteraryreview.org/2022/03/edgar-gomez-high-risk-homosexual/.

Kirkus Reviews. 2021. “One Headlight by Matt Caprioli.” Kirkus Reviews, July 8, 2021. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/matt-caprioli/one-headlight/.

Frye-Castillo, Matthew. 2021. “The Bradbury.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (Blog), August 6, 2021. https://brevity.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/the-bradbury/.

Frye-Castillo, Matthew. 2021. “On Continually Learning from Audre Lorde.” Transform: The Graduate Center’s Digital Journal, February 24, 2021. https://transform.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/02/24/on-continually-learning-from-audre-lorde/.

Positions

Lecturer of Professional Writing, English, Lehman College
Director of the LGBTQ+ Collective, School of Arts & Humanities, Lehman College
Director of the Program for Professional Communications, English, Lehman College
Meridian Student Newspaper Faculty Advisor (2021 – 2024), English, Lehman College

Grants

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2025

Sewanee Writer’s Conference, 2024

Mellon Foundation, 2021

Academic Interests

Memoir, biography, general nonfiction; racial passing narratives; Latine identities; LBTQ+ histories and futures; business ethics; sustainable investing, ESG, and SRI; corporate culture history; media studies; journalism pedagogy; social psychology; digital humanities; GenAI & emerging tech; political science; rhetoric & the politics of victimhood.