[4] In 1954, she married Joe Cassin, a survivor of the Bataan Death March during World War II; they have one son.
Contributors included William Stafford, Donald Hall, Judson Jerome, Sylvia Plath,[5] and Vassar Miller.
The journals' press published Miller's Adam's Footprint (1956)[6] and Struggling to Swim on Concrete (1984), as well as collections by Maddox, Raeburn Miller, Martha McFerren, Tom Wright, Harold Witt, Felix Stefanile, Rosewell Graves Lowrey, Charles L. Black, Ralph Adamo, Charles DeGravelles (a later co-editor of the press),[7] and Paul Petrie.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina forced the Cassins to relocate from their home in Uptown New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
She continued to publish in major journals as late as 2006; Callaloo's post-Katrina issue featured "Three Love Poems by a Native," which Cassin also read during an October 26, 1995 interview with WWNO-FM's Fred Kasten.