Joy Castro

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Joy Castro
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Joy Castro’s first book, The Truth Book:  A Memoir (New York:  Arcade, 2005), was named a Book Sense Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association and was adapted and excerpted in The New York Times Magazine. Her short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in several anthologies and in journals such as North American Review, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Quarterly West, and Puerto del Sol.

Named one of 2009's Best New Latino Authors by LatinoStories.com, Joy has a debut novel, Hell or High Water, forthcoming from St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne in July 2012. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Hell or High Water features a young Cuban American reporter tracking the registered sex offenders who disappeared during the hurricane evacuation