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Sebastian Castillo
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2013-2018; 2021-Present
Instructor
- ENGL 3004: Intermediate Fiction
- IH 852: Intellectual History II
- ENGL 857: The Detective Novel
- ENGL 701: Introduction to Academic Discourse
- ENGL 802: Analytical Reading and Writing
- ENGL 2004: Introduction to Fiction
- ENGL 2006: Introduction to Nonfiction
- ENGL 826: Creative Acts
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2022-Present
Instructor
- WRIT 101: Written Composition
- WRIT 202: Pre-College Prep Program: Creative Nonfiction
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2017; 2021-Present
Instructor
- ENGL 010: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL 112: Flash Fiction
- PSPR 006: Pre-College High Prep Program: Composition & Rhetoric
Sewanee University, Sewanee, TN 2023
Instructor
- ENGL 587: Hybrid and Experimental Literature
Stockton University, Galloway Township, NJ 2018; 2021-2022
Instructor
- LITT 2237: Introduction to Creative Writing
- LITT 2114: Literary Interpretation
Manhattan College, Bronx, NY 2018-2021
Instructor
- ENGL 110: First-Year Composition
Concordia College, Bronxville, NY 2018-2021
Specialist
- Center for Student Success: John Bahr Writing Center Tutor
La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 2016-2018
Instructor
- ENGL 110: College Writing I: Persuasion
- ENGL 210: College Writing II: Research
Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2015-2016
Instructor
- ENGL 101: English Composition I
- ENGL 108: Academic Reading Across the Disciplines
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 2015-2016
Instructor
- WRIT 201: Multimedia Communication
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Shabby Doll House 2023-Present
Senior Fiction Editor
- Edits fiction manuscripts for publication
- Manages successful launch of fiction titles for the press
Peach Mag 2020-2023
Editor-at-Large
- Ran “Favorite Books” column
Gigantic Magazine, Brooklyn, NY 2012-2016
Copy Editor
- Performed copy editing for sense, grammar, and style for all of the magazine’s pieces
- Assisted with maintaining and formatting editorial content for website
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 2013-2014 (seasonal)
Administrative/Marketing Assistant, Children’s Division
- Provided continuous administrative support to VP of Children’s Marketing by coordinating schedule, appointments, expense accounts, and travel arrangements
- Wrote marketing and social media copy for various ongoing campaigns
- Assisted department at large with administrative and organizational support
EDUCATION
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2013-2015
- Master’s of Fine Arts, Creative Writing-Fiction
Manhattan College, Bronx, NY 2007-2011
- Bachelor’s of Arts, English and Philosophy, graduated Magna Cum Laude
HONORS AND AWARDS
- BOMB Magazine Short Story Contest 2021
- Frances Israel Manuscript Prize in Fiction 2015
- First Year Writing Teaching Award 2014, 2015
- Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education 2014
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Soft Skull: Fresh, Green Life (forthcoming 2025; novel)
- Smooth Friend: The Zoo of Thinking (forthcoming 2024; story collection)
- Shabby Doll House: SALMON (2023; novel)
- Word West Press: Not I (2020; poetry collection)
- Bottlecap Press: 49 Venezuelan Novels (2017; story collection)
- Joyland: “SALMON (excerpt)”
- BOMB: “Cigarette Painter”
- HAD: “Naming and Necessity”
- Neutral Spaces: “How Do You Pronounce Andy Warhol”
- SORTES: “Sad Family Play”
- Folder: “The Zoo of Thinking”
- Heavy Feather Review: “Unrecorded Existence”
- Queen Mob’s Tea House: “Channel Surfing”
- X-Ray Lit Magazine: “Sarcastic Mind Jail Goes to a Party”
- Wigleaf: “Unusual Deaths”
- Hobart: “A Story to Spit On”
- Storyscape Journal: “Can You Wake Up Your Own Doctor?”
- The Fanzine: “99 Readers”
- Peach Mag: The Peach Mag Season One Yearbook (anthology)
- Wigleaf: The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2017
- Electric Literature: “Hecho en Venezuela: The Private Poetics of Narrative, Memory, and Lies”
SKILLS
- Fluent in Spanish
- Proficient with Mac/Windows OS, Microsoft Office Suite, CMS (Moveable Type, WordPress), and LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle)