Luisa Castro (born 1966, in Foz, Lugo) is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish.
She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Naples and Bordeaux.
She is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin, Ireland.
Her first collection of poems, Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo (Definitive Odyssey: :Posthumous Book) was published in 1984.
Her first novel was El somier (Bed Base) (1999).