Cass Donish

Cass Donish is a queer Jewish poet from South Pasadena, California. They are the author of the collections Your Dazzling Death (Knopf, 2024), 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). Donish received an MFA in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis.