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Matthew Frye-Castillo

Pronouns: he/him

Education

B.A., University of Alaska, Anchorage
M.F.A., Hunter College, CUNY

Biography

Matthew Frye-Castillo (B.A., University of Alaska, Anchorage; M.F.A., Hunter College, CUNY; Certificate in Publishing, Columbia University) is Lecturer of Professional Writing and Director of the Program for Professional Communications in the Department of English at Lehman College, City University of New York. He directs the Program for Professional Communications (PPC), which offers minors in Professional Writing, Professional Communications, and Business & Entrepreneurship for Creative Arts Professionals (BECAP). He has directed the LGBTQ+ Collective in the Office of the President and previously advised the Crystal Queer student club. He previously served as Faculty Advisor to the Meridian student newspaper (2021–2024) and as a member of the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council and Lehman College's Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism Committee (EIAAR). He is a current Faculty Fellow for Writing Across the Curriculum, where he has led workshops on AI-mediated pedagogy, and a Faculty Fellow for CUNY Beyond, focusing on integrating career-connected learning into course curricula. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2025) and the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2024), and a grant from the Mellon Foundation (2021). Prior to his academic career, he worked in marketing, publishing, financial consulting, and journalism. In addition to his academic work, he consults on executive communication, tech humanism, and AI editorial strategy.

Recent Publications

• "Defending the Right to Slay: Queer Killers in Contemporary Literature." Gay & Lesbian Review (forthcoming).
• "When Silence Speaks Volumes: Jeannie Vanasco on a Complex Mother-Daughter Relationship." River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, February 2026.
• "Live in Fragments." The Lindenwood Review, Vol. 1, Iss. 15 (2025).
• "Finding Héctor." Little Patuxent Review, Issue 37, Winter 2025.
• "History and the Art of Queer Recovery." Prism & Pen, October 2024.
• "The Daniels: On Four Latine Authors Named Daniel, Part Two." Epiphany Magazine, September 2024.
• "The Daniels: On Four Latine Authors Named Daniel." Epiphany Magazine, October 2023.
• "Edgar Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual." Lambda Literary, March 2022.
• "The Bradbury." Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, August 2021.
• "On Continually Learning from Audre Lorde." Transform: The Graduate Center's Digital Journal, February 2021.
• One Headlight: A Memoir (Cirque Press, 2021).

He welcomes emails from Lehman faculty, staff, students, and alumni at matthewfryecastillo.com