Cass Donish is the author of Your Dazzling Death (Knopf, 2024), The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award, and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Their nonfiction chapbook, On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019), was chosen by Maggie Nelson as winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition.

Donish's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, Poem-a-Day, Texas Review, Tupelo Quarterly, VICE, and elsewhere. 

A founding editor of The Spectacle, Donish earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, an MA in cultural geography from the University of Oregon, and a PhD in English from the University of Missouri. Donish has taught creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Missouri, Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, and Ashland University's low-residency MFA program. They live in Columbia, Missouri, with their partner and cats.