Christopher David Castellani (born 1972) is the author of four novels and artistic director of the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet.
[3] That novel and his next two, The Saint of Lost Things and All This Talk of Love, are devoted to the same Italian-American family and constitute, in one reviewer's phrase, "something of an opera buffa of the immigrant experience".
[9] Castellani taught English literature at Tufts University (1997–2000) and creative writing as a visiting professor at Swarthmore College (2007).
He is the artistic director of the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet,[10] and serves on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
"[12] Castellani published an apology to the GrubStreet community, expressing regret for his words and saying, "I wrote some of those unprofessional emails as an admittedly hyperbolic, deliberatively provocative, and highly performative way of supporting my friend and fellow writer.