Monika Cassel was raised bilingual in the United States and Germany. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Guesthouse, Poetry Northwest, Zócalo Public Square, and Phoebe Journal, among others, and her translations from German have been widely published in journals such as AGNI, Guernica, Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review Online, Waxwing, and Asymptote. Her chapbook Grammar of Passage (flipped eye publishing 2021) won the Venture Poetry Award. 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 a teaching artist with Writers in the Schools in Portland, Oregon.