Forthcoming
Cass is currently revising The Biting Kind, a creative nonfiction book that explores mental health, mass incarceration, and the climate crisis. The book asks: Where does social responsibility begin?
The Biting Kind just made The Short List for the 2023 Santa Fe Writers Program Literary Awards! The 2023 SFWP Literary Awards Program was judged by award-winning author Deesha Philyaw. The final winner be announced soon.
An excerpt of this manuscript was recently presented at a Tin House Workshop and further developed during her stay at Millay Arts.
Her personal essay, “Mother’s Day,” is included in the forthcoming anthology, Broken Free: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy, represented by the editor’s literary agent, and currently out on submission.
Recent Notable Publications
The Rumpus, "Writing Beyond the Bars: A Mini Interview with Geneva Phillips" (This interview is also featured in PEN America's Works of Justice newsletter.)
The New Yorker, "The Mail" section, Letter on philanthropy, "Gift Horse”
Dramatic Question "Irresistible," a one-page play, a standoff between a plant and a cat.
Broad Street Review, “Can Arts Education Save American Democracy?” (This essay was also featured in Arts Journal.)
The Belladonna Comedy, "I'm Hosting a Writer's Residency in my Backyard Shed"
Brief Biography
Cassandra Lewis is an award-winning writer. Her nonfiction and plays have been included in 10 books. She has contributed to several other publications, such as The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Broad Street Review, The Belladonna Comedy, Mutha Magazine, Head Stuff, Boston Literary Magazine, NYC Playwrights, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and The Village Voice.
Her plays have been produced in London, New York, Dublin, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities. She served as an adjudicator for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre and was shortlisted for the London-based Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize. She received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Cass earned an MFA in Writing from New College of California in San Francisco and completed The University of Iowa’s Irish Writing Program in Dublin, Ireland.
She is a Writing Mentor for PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program and currently at work on a book about mental health, mass incarceration, and the climate crisis, which just made the 2023 SFWP Literary Awards Short List.
Cass is currently revising The Biting Kind, a creative nonfiction book that explores mental health, mass incarceration, and the climate crisis. The book asks: Where does social responsibility begin?
The Biting Kind just made The Short List for the 2023 Santa Fe Writers Program Literary Awards! The 2023 SFWP Literary Awards Program was judged by award-winning author Deesha Philyaw. The final winner be announced soon.
An excerpt of this manuscript was recently presented at a Tin House Workshop and further developed during her stay at Millay Arts.
Her personal essay, “Mother’s Day,” is included in the forthcoming anthology, Broken Free: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy, represented by the editor’s literary agent, and currently out on submission.
Recent Notable Publications
The Rumpus, "Writing Beyond the Bars: A Mini Interview with Geneva Phillips" (This interview is also featured in PEN America's Works of Justice newsletter.)
The New Yorker, "The Mail" section, Letter on philanthropy, "Gift Horse”
Dramatic Question "Irresistible," a one-page play, a standoff between a plant and a cat.
Broad Street Review, “Can Arts Education Save American Democracy?” (This essay was also featured in Arts Journal.)
The Belladonna Comedy, "I'm Hosting a Writer's Residency in my Backyard Shed"
Brief Biography
Cassandra Lewis is an award-winning writer. Her nonfiction and plays have been included in 10 books. She has contributed to several other publications, such as The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Broad Street Review, The Belladonna Comedy, Mutha Magazine, Head Stuff, Boston Literary Magazine, NYC Playwrights, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and The Village Voice.
Her plays have been produced in London, New York, Dublin, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities. She served as an adjudicator for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre and was shortlisted for the London-based Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize. She received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Cass earned an MFA in Writing from New College of California in San Francisco and completed The University of Iowa’s Irish Writing Program in Dublin, Ireland.
She is a Writing Mentor for PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program and currently at work on a book about mental health, mass incarceration, and the climate crisis, which just made the 2023 SFWP Literary Awards Short List.