Cassie Pruyn is a New Orleans poet, originally hailing from Portland, Maine. Her poem, TwoPlaces, was second runner-up in the 2013 William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, and one of her prose poems was a finalist for the 2013 Indiana Review1/2K Prize. She received her undergraduate degree from Bard College in New York, and currently is working toward her MFA through the Bennington Writing Seminars in Bennington, VT. She is a member of Peauxdunque Writer’s Alliance under the auspices of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. Her first book-length manuscript will include free-verse, formal, and prose poems all centering on the mysterious fusion of history and landscape. Cassie will present from her new work at at the annual meeting of the Words & Music Writers Alliance during Words & Music, 2013.