Cassondra Windwalker

Poet, Fiction Writer

Anchor Point, AK
Alaska US
Email: 
cassondrawrites@aol.com
Website: 
www.cassondrawindwalker.com
Twitter/X: 
@www.twitter.com/WindwalkerWrite

Author's Bio

Cassondra Windwalker was born and raised in Oklahoma and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Letters from the University of Oklahoma. She spent nine years in Indiana before moving to Fort Collins, Colorado, where she worked five years as a bookstore manager and five years as a deputy sheriff. She presently writes full-time from the southern coast of Alaska.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Dead of Winter (Black Spot Books, 2021)
,
Idle Hands (Agora Books, 2020)
,
A Midnight Clear (Black Spot Books, 2019)
,
Preacher Sam (Black Spot Books, 2019)
,
Bury The Lead (Black Spot Books, 2018)

Poetry

Books:
tide tables and tea with god (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2021)
,
The Almost-Children (Cornerstone Press, 2019)
Prizes won: 

2021, The Bench, awarded the Helen Kay Chapbook Award by Evening Street Press

2020, Bury The Lead, awarded 2020 Maxy Award Runner-Up

2019, Half-an-Orange, honorable mention from The Ghost Story

2017, Classroom Observations, semi-finalist in the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition

2016, The Heron's Ghost, honorable mention in Boardwalk Gallery Exhibition & Competition: Reflection

2016, I Buried My Sparrow, finalist for The Poet's Billow Pangaea Prize

2016, Navigator, 1st Place, and The Gate and the Door, honorable mention in Boardwalk Gallery Exhibition & Competition: Shadowways

2016, Scree Fields, honorable mention in the Storyhouse Travel Nonfiction Award

2008, Between The Twilights, 3rd Place in the Hackney Literary Awards

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Hemingway, Rilke, Tolkien, Lewis, Oliver, DuMaurier, Heaney, Doerr, Lang, Merton, Chadwick, Ivy, Ward

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma
Raised in: 
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma
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Last update: May 28, 2021