Cassidy McFadzean is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Walrus, Hazlitt, and Dead Writers (Invisible Publishing, 2025) and an excerpt from her new poetry manuscript was featured as The Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week. Cassidy was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, and now lives in Toronto. She was the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence at Sheridan College and is the 2025-2026 Poet-in-Residence at Arc Poetry Magazine.
