Yan Castaldo

Yan Castaldo,writer

Yan Castaldo lives in Toronto, and is beginning grad school at McMaster University in September 2026 to become a psychotherapist. He loves art, music, and psychobabble. You can find more of his writing at yancastaldo.substack.com.  

i flinch when i see aluminum bowls — Volume 10, Issue 4

Yan Castaldo confronts the violence of ordinary objects in his creative non-fiction piece, i flinch when i see aluminum bowls. More than a story about loss, it is a meditation on the body’s memory—what it witnesses, what breaks, and what refuses to forget.