Stacie Cassarino

Stacie Cassarino (she/her) is the author of Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books, 2023), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award; Zero at the Bone (New Issues Press, 2009), recipient of a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award; and the scholarly monograph Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature (OSU Press, 2018). She was awarded the 92Y Discovery/The Nation prize and was a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She has received support from an Astraea Foundation Writers’ Fund Grant, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship, and residencies at Ragdale, Millay Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center.

The voice in Cassarino’s lyric poems is both familiar and solitary as it explores urban and natural landscapes as well as the complications of human entanglements. Poet Ron Slate, reviewing Zero at the Bone on his website, observed, “often her speaker observes herself in memory, moving through a landscape, carrying a dayload of uncertainty, testing the validity of her emotions.”

Cassarino earned a PhD from UCLA, an MA from the University of Washington-Seattle, and a BA from Middlebury College. She teaches literature and creative writing at Smith College and lives in Vermont with her three daughters.