Bio
Cassandra Love is a 2008 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Swagger is a Woman is her first book of poetry and is available through Mouthfeel Press. Her poems have been featured in journals and anthologies, some of which include: Forth Magazine, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and Mezcla. She hosted the radio show “For the Love of Poetry” on BlogTalkRadio and interviewed poetry greats such as Nikki Giovanni, Dorianne Laux, and Kim Addonizio. Cassandra studied literature and played basketball at Yale.
With a mother who emigrated to LA from Manila, and a father from North Dakota, Cassandra finds truth in fluidity, ambiguity, and the space between spaces. She lives with her daughter, Lua, and partner, Guilherme, in Los Angeles.
