Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D.

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❤️ Bestselling author of 19 books 🧡 Trauma-informed teacher at The Loft 💛 Novels: Beaver Girl, The ReSisters, & Shamrock and Lotus 💚 Nonfiction: Earth Joy Writing, Moon Days, & We Heal from Memory 🩵 7 poetry books 💙 Writing Coach 💜 www.cassiepremosteele.com

American ibis in South Carolina
Lenny Bruce the Dog
Corn growing in Cassie’s yard in South Carolina
Red shouldered hawk in South Carolina
Pottery from the Acoma Pueblo with two rabbits and a card with a quote from The Big Sea by Langston Hughes that reads, “The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.”
Tulip poplar volunteers from an old growth tree
Blueberries in front of beaver-inspired candle holder
Cassie’s grandkids tending to the tadpoles in the backyard frog pond
Writing Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism with Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D.
Online Class Saturday JUL 25 The LOFT Literary Center Writing Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism Inspired by the courage and resilience seen in Minnesota during the ICE raid. Learn how poetry can be a form of collective witness. Register at Loft.org Taught by Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. award-winning poet & trauma scholar
Susanne and Cassie at Skydance Brewing in Oklahoma City.
A photo of the Supreme Court of the United States
The LOFT poeTRYhealing Healing from individual and collective trauma through poetry The right poem at the right time changes everything. Spend three hours reading and writing in response to the poetry of Anzaldua, Bass, Harjo, Komunyakaa, Lorde, Sexton and Vuong. Online Class Saturday JUN 27 Register at Loft.org Taught by Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. award-winning poet & trauma scholar
Cassie holding a copy of the new anthology benefiting Congaree National Park. For more info and to order: https://www.congareeanthology.com/#/
Nadiem Amiri plays for Germany in the World Cup
Honeycomb at Rumi Kitchen in Atlanta
Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary was published in France in 1956
Cassie Premo Steele Green Ink Join me for poeTRYhealing, a 3-hour live online class with The Loft Literary Center on Saturday, June 27. Healing from individual and collective trauma through poetry The right poem at the right time changes everything Everyone is welcome, and this will be a supportive, caring, and non-competitive experience where students — from those just beginning their writing journeys to those with expertise in writing, teaching, publishing, or those with expertise in mental health fields — can learn about the healing power of poetry. JUN 19, 2026 SUBSTACK.COM/@CASSIEPREMOSTEELE
Dawn through the tall trees during Cassie’s morning walk with Lenny in South Carolina
Cassie’s stepdaughter, at 12 years old, holds Cassie’s daughter as a baby in 2000
Cassie and her wife after voting in the primary election in South Carolina.
Cassie and her wife reading The Hungry Caterpillar in German to their granddaughter while their daughter laughs in the background
Cassie and Lenny in red light
Lenny Bruce enjoys an afternoon in the back porch underneath the mother-daughter tulip poplar trees
A double rainbow over Folly Beach, South Carolina
Cassie with her granddaughter in front of the jellyfish at the Riverbanks Zoo Aquarium in Columbia, South Carolina
A white egret fishes in the swamp waters between thousand year old trees in Congaree National Park yesterday during Cassie’s seasonal Forest Wellness Journaling Workshop.
A branch of bald cypress at Congaree National Park in South Carolina
Lenny Bruce guides viewers to the sights at the Columbia Riverfront Park on a Friday morning.
Cassie in her neighborhood with the sun rising behind her
Cassie’s hand with her green fountain pen takes a break from writing to pat Lenny Bruce the dog’s fluffy head.
Lenny Bruce the dog naps on books next to Cassie during yesterday’s afternoon reading session on a rainy Memorial Day. The books are Spring Unfurled by printmaker Angela Harding, which I got through Bert’s Books and which my daughter and I were reading together aloud. And Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner, a writer based in Portland, Oregon, which Cassie’s daughter will be reading next. Both highly recommended!
A great blue heron in an oak tree outside Cassie’s window at dusk on Sunday evening
Cassie wearing her favorite shirt for mother-daughter fun days that says “Mother Daughter Holy Spirit.” Sales of the shirt support the Trans Justice Funding Project. https://www.motherdaughterholyspirit.nyc/composite-crop
"...writing is a solitary job—nobody can help you with it, but there's nothing lonely about it. I have always been too busy, too immersed in what I was doing, either mad at it or laughing at it to have time to wonder whether I was lonely or not lonely, it's simply solitary. I think there is a difference between loneliness and solitude." -Faulkner at the University of Virginia, 1958 Photograph taken on April 11, 2024, between a total solar eclipse and my birthday, at the home of William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi
Cassie with her daughter and stepdaughter over 20 years ago
A male and female duck interacting in the beaver pond in Cassie’s neighborhood this morning
Cassie at the end of her morning run today
Stars in the night sky at Congaree National Park, a UNESCO-designated biosphere region and the home of the rare species of synchronous fireflies, Photuris frontalis, also known as the Snappy Single Sync
A black and white cat with yellow eyes looks out from holly leaves
Cassie and her wife Susanne overlooking the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina
Image from 4 Ways to Work with Me This Summer (or, Is it time for you to do the writing you've always wanted to do?)
Cassie holds multicolored corn seeds in her hand for planting
Cassie with her dog Lenny earlier this week at a South Carolina beach during much deserved and very productive writing retreat
Cassie and Lenny on the rocks of the Saluda River yesterday in Columbia, South Carolina. Photo by Cassie’s daughter, Lily.
HEADMISTRESS PRESS PRESENTS SAPPHO IN TROUBLE: A ROUNDTABLE Seven Sapphic sisters read and discuss their Sappho-inspired poems. FEATURING Emily Hay Samantha Pious Ellen Miller-Mack Suzanne Stroh Sophie Collins Mary Meriam Cassie Premo Steele Saturday May 9, 2026 10am Pacific 11am Mountain Noon Central 1pm Eastern 6pm London 3am Sydney Zoom invite in post https://www.headmistress-press.com
Sunset through the old growth trees at Congaree National Park last night
Mourning dove in Cassie Premo Steele’s yard in South Carolina
Full moon surrounded by clouds with a pink ring around it on May 6, 2023, at 3:26 AM in Columbia, South Carolina
Two bluebirds on a branch near their newly hatched chicks that they feed carefully in a dogwood tree.
A white duck (who lives happily with the resident geese in the area despite her difference) floats on the beaver pond in front of cedar and cypress trees in Columbia, South Carolina
Cassie Premo Steele and her wife Susanne Kappler at a concert with Valerie June and Ani DiFranco last night in Asheville, North Carolina
Cassie Premo Steele in the arms of a magnolia tree on the grounds of the South Carolina State House before the May Day Rally yesterday
Cassie at The Hoot holding a coffee mug that says MARY during Sunday brunch
All proceeds benefit Friends of Congaree Swamp Cassle Premo Steele | Maggle Olszewski | Kat Martin Julle K. Hansard | Catalina Zavala Olvera Old Growth An Anthology Inspired by Congaree National Park JOIN US FOR THE Old Growth BOOK LAUNCH PARTY THUR | APR 30 |6-8PM 1013 DUKE AVE, COLUMBIA, SC Readings and remarks of gratitude from 7-7:20PM Artwork on display • Book sales • Light refreshments
Cassie’s wife reads to our newborn grandson in 2019