Kasandra Larsen, Poet

Kasandra Larsen’s chapbook, Stellar Telegram, won the 2009 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition. One of three winners of the Third Wednesday 2011 Poetry Contest, she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist in the Tiferet 2010 Sacred Poetry Contest. She is the Copy Editor for the online journal Amethyst Arsenic and works at the New Orleans Public Library. Her work has appeared in numerous journals in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., including 100 Poets Against the War, Babylon Burning: 9/11 Five Years On, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Blood Lotus, Blue Earth Review, Breakwater Review, Denver Syntax, Full of Crow, Hawai’i Pacific Review, The Nervous Breakdown, nthposition, Pure Francis, Roanoke Review, Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, SLAB, Two Hawks Quarterly, and The Write Room.