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.
[7] In 2013, she was a TEDx speaker on "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning".
[8] Steele attended the University of Virginia from 1985 to 1989, majoring in Comparative Literature and minoring in French and graduating Magna Cum Laude.