Cassie Premo SteeleCassie Premo Steele is the author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and she was a TEDx speaker on the theme of "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning" She has been a columnist for Literary Mama and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She lives with her wife and daughter in Columbia, South Carolina. Cassie Premo Steele received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the English Department and the Gender and Women's Studies and Comparative Literature Programs at the University of South Carolina. She has been a blogger for the Text and Academic Authors Association. Read More Read Less