Queer poet and writer Cass Donish was born and raised in Greater Los Angeles. They are the author of the poetry collection Your Dazzling Death (Knopf, 2024), winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award.
Donish’s two previous collections are The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award; and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Their nonfiction chapbook, On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019), was chosen by Maggie Nelson as winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition.