Elaine Castillo

About the Author

Elaine Castillo is a Filipino American literary fiction author that is best known for her debut fiction novel “America is Not the Heart.” The author now makes her home in southeast London even though she was born and brought up in the San Francisco Bay. Elaine has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has won the Roselyn Scheider Eisner Prize for Prose, and made the semi-finals for the Gatewood Prize. Growing up as a Filipino American, Elaine for the most part lived with her mother’s family. As such, she used to speak a lot of Tagalog and Pangasinense since they lived in a majority-minority community full of Vietnamese, Mexican, and Filipino immigrants. However, she only turned to writing when she was 29 and moved to London where she enrolled for an MA. She got into writing almost fo. Elaine Castillo is the author of over 4 books across 3 series. Their most famous work is the Publication Order of Standalone Novels series, which has garnered millions of readers worldwide. With such a prolific career, Elaine Castillo has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.