Cassie Premo Steele Explained

Cassie Premo Steele
Birth Date:	13 April 1967
Birth Place:	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Cassie Premo Steele (born April 13, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan)^[1] is an American Pushcart-Prize nominated poet, novelist, and author. Steele is a contributor to HuffPost^[2] and Medium^[3] and from 2009 to 2015 she wrote a column for Literary Mama called "Birthing the Mother Writer".^[4] Her writing focuses on themes of intersectionality, ecofeminism, and collective trauma.^{[5] [6]} From 2009 to 2013, she was the host of The Co-Creating Show podcast.^[7] In 2013, she was a TEDx speaker on "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning".

Education

Steele attended the University of Virginia from 1985 to 1989, majoring in Comparative Literature and minoring in French and graduating Magna Cum Laude. She went on to earn an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina in 1991 and then a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.^[8]

Published works

Nonfiction

• Moon Days: Creative Writings about Menstruation. Summerhouse Press, 1999. Distributed by Ash Tree Publishing.^[9]
• We Heal From Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa and the Poetry of Witness. Palgrave, 2000.^{[10] [11]}
• Easyhard: Reflections on the Practice of Creativity. WordClay, 2009. ISBN
• My Peace: A Year of Yoga at Amsa Studios. WordClay, 2008.^[12]
• Earth Joy Writing: creating balance through journaling and nature. Ashland Creek Press, 2015.^{[13] [14]}

Poetry

• Ruin. ^[15]
• New Women's Voices Series by Finishing Line Press, 2004. Released as a Kindle edition in 2013.^[16]
• This is How Honey Runs. Unbound Content, 2010.
• The Pomegranate Papers. Unbound Content, 2012.^{[17] [18] [8]}
• Wednesday. Unbound Content, 2013.
• Beautiful Waters. Finishing Line Press, 2016.
• Tongues in Trees | Poems 1994–2017. Unbound Content, 2017.^{[19] [20]}
• In March We Fell in Love. samfiftyfour, 2020.
• Anne Sexton and Ralph Waldo Emerson Ride a Donkey into Heaven. samfiftyfour, 2021. ^[21]
• Swimming in Gilead. Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2023 ISBN 979-8985070491

Fiction

• Shamrock and Lotus. All Things That Matter Press, 2010.^[22]
• The ReSisters. All Things That Matter Press, 2018.^[23]  
• Beaver Girl. Anxiety and Outcast Presses, 2023.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Have you been threatened?. Steele. Cassie Premo . 2016-11-12. HuffPost. en. 2024-06-10.
2. Web site: Cassie Premo Steele . HuffPost. 2019-09-23.
3. Web site: Cassie Premo Steele. Medium. en. 2019-09-23.
4. Web site: Birthing the Mother Writer. Literary Mama. 2019-09-23.
5. Web site: How a Nature-Loving Peacenik Came to Love the Military. Steele. Cassie Premo. 2014-08-20. HuffPost. en. live. 2019-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411001441/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-a-nature-loving-peace_b_5695492 . 2021-04-11 .
6. Web site: Courage is Contagious: How Women Can Heal Now. Steele. Cassie Premo. 2018-09-30. Medium. en. 2019-09-23.
7. Web site: The Co-Creating Show on Apple Podcasts. Apple Podcasts. en-us. 2019-09-23.
8. Web site: An Interview with Cassie Premo Steele. Literary Mama. 2019-09-23.
9. Web site: Publishers Weekly. www.publishersweekly.com. live. 2019-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20190924000027/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-887714-41-9 . 2019-09-24 .
10. Kirkpatrick. Kathryn. 2002. McQuade. Molly. Mark. Alison. Rees-Jones. Deryn. Steele. Cassie Premo. Simpson. Megan. Curry. Renee R.. Aizenberg. Susan. Belieu. Erin. Poetry Matters. NWSA Journal. 14. 1. 185–195. 1040-0656. 4316878.
11. Book: Steele, C.. We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness. 2016-04-30. Springer. 9781137123138. en.
12. Book: My Peace by Cassie Premo Steele Ahimsa Truth. Scribd. en. 978-1-60481-196-4. 2019-09-23. Steele . Cassie Premo . June 2008 . Wordclay .
13. Web site: EPISODE 477 - Earth Joy Writing Beyond 50 podcast. FM. Player. player.fm. 20 August 2015 . en. 2019-09-23.
14. Book: Steele, Cassie Premo. Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony through Journaling and Nature. 2015-04-15. Ashland Creek Press. 9781618220394. en.
15. Book: Sell, Colleen. A Cup of Comfort for Writers. 2019-09-23. 9781598692686. September 2007. Simon and Schuster .
16. Web site: Cassie Premo Steele. blog.pshares.org. 2019-09-23.
17. Web site: Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents The Pomegranate Papers. blog.pshares.org. 2019-09-23.
18. Web site: The Pomegranate Papers. Cassie Premo Steele. 8 April 2012 . en. live. 2019-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20190924000028/http://momeggreview.com/2012/04/08/the-pomegranate-papers-by-cassie-premo-steele-2/ . 2019-09-24 .
19. Web site: Something like a review - Cassie Premo Steele's Tongues in Trees, poems 1994 - 2017. The Jasper Project. en-US. 2019-09-23.
20. Web site: Tongues in Trees: poems 1994-2017. Steele. Cassie Premo. 2017-12-04. Unbound Content Publishing. en-US. 2019-09-23.
21. Web site: Cassie Premo Steele. samfiftyfour.com. 2021-03-30.
22. Book: Steele, Cassie Premo. Shamrock and Lotus. All Things That Matter Press. 9780984621637. en. September 2010.
23. Book: Steele, Cassie Premo. The Resisters. 2018-09-24. Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. 9781732723719. en.