Biography: Cass Garison is a poet & artist with an MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. Their first chapbook, "Beauty Exasperated," is available through Common Meter Press. They were a 2023-2024 Hugo House Fellow and have work published at Poets.org, in Gulf Coast, Shō Poetry Journal, Washington Square Review, Foglifter, & others. Cass hosts an annual retreat for poets and artists working in all mediums. They also organize Threshold, a fledgling hybridized trans- & queer-centered poetic-performance art series in Seattle. More about them at CassGarison.com.