Stacie Cassarino



Stacie Cassarino (born 1975) is an award-winning American poet.

Life
Born in Connecticut of Italian heritage, she is a graduate of Middlebury College (B.A.], 1997) where she subsequently taught in the English department, and University of Washington ([[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A., 2000). Cassarino has also taught at the Pratt Institute in New York and worked as a chef.

Her poetry, which deals with subjects such as risk, relationships and loss, has been published in notable literary journals such as The New Republic, Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse (magazine), Iowa Review, Georgia Review, AGNI and the Comstock Review (where she was awarded 2003 winning poem ).

Her collection of poetry, Zero at the Bone, was published by New Issues Press in 2008 to critical acclaim. 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..."

She lives in Los Angeles.

Recognition
In 2005, she won the "Discovery"/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She also received an award from the Astraea Foundation Writer's Fund.

Her 2008 collection of poetry, Zero at the Bone, won the 2010 Lambda prize for Lesbian poetry.