Cass Donish

Cass Donish is a queer Jewish poet from South Pasadena, California. They received an MFA in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis.

Donish is the author of three poetry collections: Your Dazzling Death (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024), a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018).