Stacie Cassarino's most recent collection, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, and was recommended by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book Club. She is the author of Zero at the Bone (New Issues Press, 2009), which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award, and a scholarly monograph, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature (OSU Press, 2018). She is a recipient of the 92Y “Discovery”/The Nation prize and an Astraea Foundation Writers’ Fund Grant, and was a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The New Republic, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from UCLA. She teaches in the English Language & Literature department at Smith College, and lives in Vermont with her three daughters.