Monika Cassel is Acting Chair of Creative Writing and Literature at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, where, with the support of the Lannan Foundation, she has developed a minor in creative writing and plans to launch a creative writing major in 2016. She was raised bilingual in English and German. Her chapbook, Grammar of Passage, was shortlisted for the Venture Poetry Award; her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Asymptote, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and Structo Magazine, and her poems have appeared in The Laurel Review and Stone Canoe Journal.