Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem is a California-based author and illustrator. She self-publishes an art and literary zine called Rag and coordinates a monthly womxn's literary reading series at The Beat Museum in San Francisco. Her poems and creative nonfiction have been published in The New Delta Review, Rip Rap, Hawaii Review, The Lifted Brow, For Women Who Roar, The Normal School, and elsewhere. Cassandra holds a BA from California Institute of Integral Studies and MFA from California College of the Arts.