Upcoming Workshop:

Utterly Emptied, Utterly Full: The Poetics of Surrender & Bounds

Sunday, July 19th. EST 10am-12pm

Cass Garison is a poet & artist with an MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. Their first chapbook, "Beauty Exasperated," was published through Common Meter Press in 2024. They were a 2023-2024 Hugo House Fellow and have work published at Poets.org, in Gulf Coast, Split this Rock, Washington Square Review, Foglifter, Shō Poetry Journal, & others. 

Cass co-hosts Wormhole Retreat, an annual retreat for poets and artists working in all mediums, alongside sullivan forderhase. They also co-organize Threshold, a hybrid trans- & queer-centered poetic-performance art series, alongside Martha Ryan.

They were a part of the Pennsylvania Public Poetry Project in 2019. They have attended Writing Workshops in Greece, the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop, and the Winter Tangerine Writing Workshop. They received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Joan Grayston Award from UW Seattle.

They have taught at University of Washington, Seattle, and are currently a Visiting Writer & Instructor at Seattle University.

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