Monika Cassel was raised bilingual in the United States and Germany. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Guesthouse, Poetry Northwest, Zócalo Public Square, and Phoebe Journal, among others. Her translations have been awarded the 2024 John Fredrick Nims Memorial Prize from the Poetry Foundation, featured on Poetry Daily, and been finalists for the Rhine Translation Prize, the Stephen Mitchell Prize, and the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize. Individual translations from German have been published in journals such as AGNI, Poetry Magazine, The Adroit Journal, The Georgia Review, and Orion. She received a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan, writing about 19th-century women poets and translators in England, Germany, and the United States. She was a founding faculty member of New Mexico School for the Arts, a statewide public arts high school in Santa Fe, NM, where the Lannan Foundation supported her efforts to develop and launch the school’s creative writing curriculum. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and is an assistant poetry editor for Four Way Review.