"Cassie Premo Steele writes with poetry and power, managing to enlighten and educate even as she explores emotional depth. As insightful as it is lyrical, her work is not to be missed.”
-Andi Buchanan
New York Times Bestselling Author
Cassie Premo Steele is a lesbian, ecofeminist, mother, poet, novelist, and essayist whose writing focuses on the themes of trauma, healing, creativity, mindfulness and the environment. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of 18 books, including 7 books of poetry and 3 novels. Her poetry has been nominated 6 times for the Pushcart Prize. She was a Finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award judged by the current US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. She has also been awarded the John Edward Johnson Prize and the Carrie McCray Literary Award for Poetry. She is a recipient of the Archibald Rutledge Prize named after the first Poet Laureate of South Carolina, where she lives with her wife.
book deal!
Beaver Emerging, Photo by Ben Goldfarb, Author of Eager
In April, two days before her birthday, Cassie signed the book deal contract for her new novel, BEAVER GIRL.
The novel will be published as a collaboration between Outcast Press and Anxiety Press, two progressive, visionary and courageous publishers who are as fully committed as she is to sharing the story of how these climate change heroes can bring us and the planet back into balance in an increasingly dystopian world.
The release date is set for November 15, 2023. They are moving fast because the planet cannot wait for us to learn the code of the water way that beavers can teach.
Also coming this fall: Swimming in Gilead, poems by Cassie Premo Steele
In the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was raging, Cassie joined a group of six women—three from Canada and three from the United States, four white and two women of color, and five lesbian and one straight—to sit and write together by Zoom once a week. They were strangers who came together during the loneliness and terror of that time and in the process, they helped each other survive.
They called themselves the Gilead Sisters.
The poems in Swimming in Gilead were written under the loving kindness and acceptance of these women who became “her eye” for each other. By opening into vulnerability, the poems show readers how to “swim in Gilead” with hope and perseverance as our rights as women are taken away.
More information can be found at Yellow Arrow Publishing.
They called themselves the Gilead Sisters.
The poems in Swimming in Gilead were written under the loving kindness and acceptance of these women who became “her eye” for each other. By opening into vulnerability, the poems show readers how to “swim in Gilead” with hope and perseverance as our rights as women are taken away.
More information can be found at Yellow Arrow Publishing.
From 2009-2015, she wrote a monthly column called "Birthing the Mother Writer" for Literary Mama, named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writers' Digest.
She has also blogged for The Huffington Post and Medium about work-life balance, politics, religion, love, and race, gender and sexuality.
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From 2009-2013, she hosted the The Co-Creating Show, a weekly podcast featuring creative inspiration and interviews with writers such as the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and and creativity experts such as Laraine Herring and Eric Maisel.
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