Luis Carlos Barragán Castro (born 1 September 1988) is a Colombian writer and illustrator specialized in science fiction.

In the same year, his debut novel Vagabunda Bogotá was published, winning multiple awards, and nominated as a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2013.

[2][3][4] He got his master's degree in Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo in 2018 with his thesis "Tropical Mudejar: Mosque-type chapels in Mexico and their role in early Spanish America" which has won the George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations Department, a merit-based award to recognize a distinguished MA thesis produced by an ARIC student in that given academic year.

[1] He was a background painter for the 2022 animation film The Other Shape and the art director of the virtual reality experience "Codice Futuro" which premiered in 2024.

[9][10] Luis Carlos Barragán is known for using science fiction, New Weird, body horror and surrealism in his novels and stories, and for uniting these themes with Colombian reality.