Cassandra J. Bruner
Hiraeth
Dewclaw Child after the Rapture
The Baptism of Spinneret Girl
Cassandra J. Bruner, the 2019-2020 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow, earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University where she served as Managing Editor of Willow Springs Books. Finalist for Black Warrior Review's 2018 Nonfiction Contest and Third Coast's 2019 Poetry Contest, their poems and essays have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, The Adroit Journal, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Muzzle, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2019 Frost Place competition, her chapbook, The Wishbone Dress, is forthcoming from Bull City Press.
Malasaña | Hudson, NY| Cargo Collective | Portland, ME | 2021