Cassie Mannes Murray is an MFA candidate at UNCW in Creative Nonfiction where she was awarded the Shannon Morton Fellowship for creative achievement, and designs for ​Ecotone and Lookout Books. She is lucky to work for Howland Literary to help discover emerging writers, and Raleigh Review​ where she is the Book Review Editor and Social Media Coordinator. Her work can be found in Passages North, and she has received support from Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Currently, she is working on a lyric essay collection about oddities of the South, particularly pertaining to women and myth, as well as a collection of slipstream stories.
