Stacie Cassarino

Stacie Cassarino (born 1975) is an American poet, literary scholar, editor, and educator. She is the author of the collection of poems, Zero at the Bone,[1] and Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature.[2]

Stacie Cassarino
Born (1975-02-15) February 15, 1975
USA
Occupationpoet
NationalityAmerican
Periodcontemporary
Genrepoetry

Biography

Born in Hartford, Connecticut of Italian (Neapolitan/Sicilian) heritage, she is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy. She is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA, 1997), University of Washington (MA, 2000), and UCLA (PhD, 2014).

She has lived in Venice, California; Brooklyn, New York; Seattle, Washington; and Portland, Oregon; as well as abroad in Italy, England, Costa Rica, and Brazil.

She lives in Vermont with her three daughters.

Career

She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Middlebury College. She previously taught at UCLA, Fairfield University, and Pratt Institute. She was formerly a Copy Editor at ELLE.com. She has also worked as a private chef, and cooked at Babbo in New York City and Cafe Lago in Seattle.

Her collection of poetry, Zero at the Bone, was published by New Issues Press in 2009 to critical acclaim. It won a 2010 Lambda Literary Award,[3] and the Audre Lorde Award.

In 2005, she won the "Discovery"/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize, was nominated for the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award in 2007, and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She also received a major award from the Astraea Foundation Writer's Fund.[4]

Her poetry, which deals with subjects such as place, desire, and loss, has been published in notable literary journals such as Poetry Northwest, The New Republic,[5] Verse Daily,[6] Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse,[7] Iowa Review, Georgia Review, AGNI,[8] and the Comstock Review (where she was awarded the 2003 winning poem[9]). Her poem "Summer Solstice" was featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writers’ Almanac on NPR in 2011.

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..."[10]

Her second book, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century Literature, connects foodscapes to aesthetic movements, demonstrating how American writers responded to the changing tastes of the nation.

References
  1. Cassarino, Stacie (2009). Zero at the Bone. ISBN 978-1930974845.
  2. "Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature". ohiostatepress.org. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2010-08-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2009-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. http://209.212.93.14/directory/keyword.mhtml?kid=93%5B%5D
  6. "Verse Daily: Northwest by Stacie Cassarino".
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2009-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "AGNI Online". 15 March 2022.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2009-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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