Cassie Donish is a queer Jewish poet and writer, author of the poetry collections The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Donish’s nonfiction chapbook On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019) was chosen by Maggie Nelson as winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition. Writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Donish earned their MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, and they currently teach and write at the University of Missouri in Columbia.