Cassie Donish is a queer Jewish poet and writer, author of the full-length poetry collections The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as 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. An interdisciplinary thinker, geographer, and educator, Donish's writing has appeared in Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, VICE, and elsewhere. Donish earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and currently teaches and writes at the University of Missouri in Columbia.