Cassandra Lewis is an essayist, novelist, and playwright exploring questions about social responsibility. She is a recipient of the PEN America/L'Engle Rahman Prize for her work in the Prison and Justice Writing Program, and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Her creative nonfiction manuscript, THE BITING KIND, made The 2024 Short List for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, judged by author Deesha Philyaw, and her fiction manuscript, GRIEF CAMP, was included on the 2025 Short List and awarded a contract to be published by SFWP in 2027.

Her personal essay, "Mother's Day," was a finalist in the nonfiction category of the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards competition, and is included in the anthology, No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy, published by Catapult. Cassandra's essay was excerpted by Oprah Daily. Her work has also been published by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Chicago Review of Books, Terrain.org, Broad Street Review, The Belladonna Comedy, Mutha Magazine, Dramatic Question, NYC Playwrights, and other publications.

Cass completed The University of Iowa's Irish Writing Program in Dublin, Ireland. She earned an MFA in Writing from New College of California and majored in Forensic Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. More information can be found on her website: CassandraLewis.com.