Cassie Premo Steele (born April 13, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan)[1] is an American Pushcart-Prize nominated poet, novelist, and author. Steele is a contributor to HuffPost[2] and Medium[3] and from 2009 to 2015 she wrote a column for Literary Mama called "Birthing the Mother Writer".[4] Her writing focuses on themes of intersectionality, ecofeminism, and collective trauma.[5][6] From 2009 to 2013, she was the host of The Co-Creating Show podcast.[7] In 2013, she was a TEDx speaker on "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning".[8]
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Education
editSteele attended the University of Virginia from 1985 to 1989, majoring in Comparative Literature and minoring in French and graduating Magna Cum Laude. She went on to earn an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina in 1991 and then a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.[9]
Published works
editNonfiction
edit- Moon Days: Creative Writings about Menstruation. Summerhouse Press, 1999. Distributed by Ash Tree Publishing.[10] ISBN 1-887714-40-5
- We Heal From Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa and the Poetry of Witness. Palgrave, 2000.[11][12] ISBN 0-312-23342-6
- Easyhard: Reflections on the Practice of Creativity. WordClay, 2009. ISBN
- My Peace: A Year of Yoga at Amsa Studios. WordClay, 2008.[13]
- Earth Joy Writing: creating balance through journaling and nature. Ashland Creek Press, 2015.[14][15] ISBN 1-61822-034-9
Poetry
edit- Ruin. [16] ISBN 1-932755-46-2
- New Women's Voices Series by Finishing Line Press, 2004. Released as a Kindle edition in 2013.[17]
- This is How Honey Runs. Unbound Content, 2010. ISBN 1-936373-04-1
- The Pomegranate Papers. Unbound Content, 2012.[18][19][9] ISBN 1-936373-26-2
- Wednesday. Unbound Content, 2013. ISBN 1-936373-40-8
- Beautiful Waters. Finishing Line Press, 2016.
- Tongues in Trees | Poems 1994–2017. Unbound Content, 2017.[20][21] ISBN 1-936373-56-4
- In March We Fell in Love. samfiftyfour, 2020. ISBN 979-8693096677
- Anne Sexton and Ralph Waldo Emerson Ride a Donkey into Heaven. samfiftyfour, 2021. ISBN 979-8705240906[22]
- Swimming in Gilead. Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2023 ISBN 979-8985070491
Fiction
edit- Shamrock and Lotus. All Things That Matter Press, 2010.[23] ISBN 0-9846216-3-6
- The ReSisters. All Things That Matter Press, 2018.[24] ISBN 1-73272-371-0
- Beaver Girl. Anxiety and Outcast Presses, 2023. ISBN 978-1960882066
References
edit- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (November 12, 2016). "Have you been threatened?". HuffPost. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ^ "Cassie Premo Steele". HuffPost. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Cassie Premo Steele". Medium. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Birthing the Mother Writer". Literary Mama. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (August 20, 2014). "How a Nature-Loving Peacenik Came to Love the Military". HuffPost. Archived from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (September 30, 2018). "Courage is Contagious: How Women Can Heal Now". Medium. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "The Co-Creating Show on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning: Cassie Premo Steele at TEDxColumbiaSC, March 21, 2013, retrieved September 23, 2019
- ^ a b "An Interview with Cassie Premo Steele". Literary Mama. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Publishers Weekly". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, Kathryn (2002). McQuade, Molly; Mark, Alison; Rees-Jones, Deryn; Steele, Cassie Premo; Simpson, Megan; Curry, Renee R.; Aizenberg, Susan; Belieu, Erin (eds.). "Poetry Matters". NWSA Journal. 14 (1): 185–195. doi:10.2979/NWS.2002.14.1.185 (inactive November 1, 2024). ISSN 1040-0656. JSTOR 4316878.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ Steele, C. (April 30, 2016). We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness. Springer. ISBN 9781137123138.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (June 2008). My Peace by Cassie Premo Steele | Ahimsa | Truth. Wordclay. ISBN 978-1-60481-196-4. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ FM, Player (August 20, 2015). "EPISODE 477 - Earth Joy Writing Beyond 50 podcast". player.fm. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (April 15, 2015). Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony through Journaling and Nature. Ashland Creek Press. ISBN 9781618220394.
- ^ Sell, Colleen (September 2007). A Cup of Comfort for Writers. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781598692686. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Cassie Premo Steele". blog.pshares.org. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents The Pomegranate Papers". blog.pshares.org. April 17, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "The Pomegranate Papers". Cassie Premo Steele. April 8, 2012. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Something like a review - Cassie Premo Steele's Tongues in Trees, poems 1994 - 2017". The Jasper Project. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (December 4, 2017). "Tongues in Trees: poems 1994-2017". Unbound Content Publishing. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Cassie Premo Steele". samfiftyfour.com. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (September 2010). Shamrock and Lotus. All Things That Matter Press. ISBN 9780984621637.
- ^ Steele, Cassie Premo (September 24, 2018). The Resisters. Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. ISBN 9781732723719.