CASSIE PRUYN

Cassie Pruyn is a New Orleans-based writer born and raised in Portland, Maine. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a BA from Bard College. Her poems and reviews have appeared in AGNI Online, The Normal School, 32 Poems, The Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, The Adroit Journal and others. She is currently working on a narrative history of Bayou St. John in New Orleans (The History Press, 2017). Her manuscript Lena, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, will be published in spring 2017 with Texas Tech University Press.