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 and the Vermont Studio Center.
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.