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Cassandra Myers

 

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Full
First name
Cassandra
Last name
Myers
 

ABOUT

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Location (city/town)
Toronto
Biography
Cassandra Myers (they/she) is a queer, trans, crip, mad, South Asian-Italian, from Toronto, Ontario. Cassandra has performed her award winning poetry across North America and has received the Best Poet Award at CUPSI. A Masters of Social Work Candidate at York University, Cassandra is an arts-educator, crisis intervention counsellor, and youth worker. A Pink Door fellow, her work can be found in Overheard Press, The Shortline Review, and ARC's Magazine Poem of the Year Honourable Mention (2020)
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications
Forthcoming: What Are Birds Poetry Journal “Self Portrait As An Oyster” (Fall 2020)
ARC Poetry Magazine - Poem of The Year Award Shortlist “Lake Baptiste Ungenders Me” (June 2020)
Quarenzine, A Feminist Call for Anything - “When you want to say Grief” (Spring / Summer 2020)
Quarenzine, Art In Isolation: “Stuck Suite” (May 14, 2020) https://www.flipsnack.com/quaranzineart/quaranzine-mag-3.html
OverHeard Lit: The Identity Issue - “Tan” & “When You’ve Never Met Your Motherland” (January, 2020)
https://www.overheardlit.com/identity-issue
The Shortline Review “On Surviving” (October 8, 2019)
https://shortlinereview.com/2019/10/09/on-surviving-cassandra-myers/?fbclid=IwAR1g6eFI1diNKvxaxzaZLZkdM3KWn41lDzgVfKnT83YOy2J3m_dGzq99joQ
UncommonYOU “Wandering Womb” (September 10, 2019)
https://www.uncommonyoupresents.com/post/wandering-womb-cassandra-myers?fbclid=IwAR2ai5NgVrZJGyI3DLOozEr1G9XYPnLEDHpnqyj_cIHSa7uklbmWOdrtF2k
The Storyteller - “Sexual Assault Survivor Learns How to Touch I Mean Love From Her Asexual Best Friend” (September 9th, 2019)
https://thestorytellerweb.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/a-rape-victim-i-mean-survivor-learns-how-to-touch-i-mean-love-from-her-asexual-best-friend-by-cassandra/?fbclid=IwAR2p7T1IWvXFBlzsZV2uIoKN3bqkQR1suSUWY-RPUSc3WHAe4sO5XHc_Ybk
Infinitely Classic - “Guilt Trip” (September 5th, 2019)
https://infinitelyclassic.com/blog/poem-guilt-cassandramyers?fbclid=IwAR3rX6kSFzR4j_QJP_Sj7A5obvEPKMIylnhPXA25SxBXD79C1lVsfBtk94A
Strength of Doves, On Revenge Anthology - “Autobiography of Cassandra” (August, 2018)
https://strengthofdoves.selz.com/
Awards and other achievements
Canadian Festival of Spoken Word Champion 2018 October 2018
Underground Indies (CFSW) Champion 2018 October 2018
Best Poet - College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational - Temple University April 2018
Pushing the Art Forward - College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational - Temple University April 2018
LGBTQ Youthline Award for Outstanding Contribution to Arts and Culture October 2017
Youth Poet of the World - Women of the World Poetry Slam, Brooklyn, NY - 2015
Poetic forms and styles
  • Haiku
  • Long poem
  • Print poetry
  • Prose poetry
  • Spoken word
Other writing expertise
  • Creative non-fiction
  • Literary fiction
 

BOOK THIS POET TODAY

Contact poet directly
cassandra.rach.myers@gmail.com
League-funded opportunities
  • Canada Poetry Tours (national)
  • Readings in Public Places (Toronto)
  • Poets in the Schools (Ontario)
  • National Poetry Month (national, April only)
Editorial services
  • Individual poem editing
  • One-on-one mentoring