Stacie Cassarino

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Stacie Cassarino
Born (1975-02-15) February 15, 1975 (age 48)
USA
OccupationPoet
Nationality American
EducationUCLA (PhD), University of Washington (MA), Middlebury College (BA)
Periodcontemporary
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsLexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, LAMBDA Literary Award, Audre Lorde Award, Astraea Foundation Writers’ Fund, 92Y "Discovery"/The Nation Prize
Website
www.staciecassarino.com

Stacie Cassarino (born 1975) is an American poet, educator, editor, and mother. She is the author of two collections of poems, Each Luminous Thing and Zero at the Bone, [1] and a monograph, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature. [2]

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Life

Born in Hartford, Connecticut of Italian heritage, she is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy. She is a graduate of UCLA (2014), University of Washington-Seattle (2000), and Middlebury College (1997).

She has lived in Venice, California; Brooklyn, New York; Seattle, Washington; and Portland, Oregon; as well as abroad in Italy, England, Costa Rica, and Brazil.

She lives in Vermont with her three daughters.

Career

She is currently on the faculty in the English & Language Literature department at Smith College. She previously taught at Middlebury College, UCLA, Fairfield University, and Pratt Institute.

She was formerly a Copy Editor at ELLE.com.

She has also worked as a private chef, and cooked at Babbo in New York City and Cafe Lago in Seattle.

Her most recent book of poems, Each Luminous Thing, won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors' Choice Award and was published by Persea Books in November 2023. The collection was recommended under "Newly Published Poetry" in TheNew York Times Book Review (October, 2023).

Her first collection of poetry, Zero at the Bone, was published by New Issues Press in 2009 to critical acclaim. It won a 2010 Lambda Literary Award, [3] and the Audre Lorde Award.

In 2005, she won the 92Y "Discovery"/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize. She also received a major award from the Astraea Foundation Writer's Fund [4] in 2007, and was a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award.

Her poetry, which deals with subjects such as place, desire, loss, and motherhood, has been published in notable literary journals such as Poetry Northwest, Kenyon Review, The New Republic , [5] Verse Daily, [6] Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse , [7] Iowa Review , Georgia Review , AGNI, [8] and the Comstock Review (where she was awarded the 2003 winning poem [9] ). Her poem "Summer Solstice" was featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writers’ Almanac on NPR in 2011.

Her work has been widely commented on, by poets such as the British writer Glyn Maxwell who reviewed the collection stating: "Cassarino's voice ranges far and near, from the gasp and sigh of creaturely love to the dizzying spaces of American distance, whiteness, silence. Few poets these days can draw their lines so strongly..." [10]

Her second book, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century Literature, connects foodscapes to aesthetic movements, demonstrating how American writers responded to the changing tastes of the nation.

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Cassarino, Stacie (2009). Zero at the Bone. New Issues, Western Michigan University. ISBN   978-1930974845.
  2. ↑ "Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature". ohiostatepress.org. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
  3. ↑ "2010 Awards Finalists & Winners — Lambda Literary". Archived from the original on 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  4. ↑ "Astraea - Lesbian Writers Fund 2009-2010". Archived from the original on 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  5. ↑ http://209.212.93.14/directory/keyword.mhtml?kid=93%5B%5D
  6. ↑ "Verse Daily: Northwest by Stacie Cassarino".
  7. ↑ "Crazyhorse Number 70". Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  8. ↑ "AGNI Online". 15 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "2003 Winning Poem". Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  10. ↑ "Reviews of Zero at the Bone". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2009-06-25.

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