Cass Eddington is a queer poet, educator, and community arts organizer from Utah. A former Denver Quarterly poetry editor, they are the author of Vernal Hurt (Magnificent Field) and TRANSIT (Spiral Editions) with recent work found in Trilobite journal, luigi ten co, and Annulet. Cass is the founder ofÌý, a currently virtual teaching and learning platform with offerings from teaching artists and radical educators. Working at the intersections of specialized knowledge and community-engaged models, they are interested in redistributing resources to create accessible, process-based, and trauma-informed spaces for creative expression. They hold a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver and an MFA in Poetry from Colorado State University. As a regenerative landscaper, they help create place-based relationships in conversation with the land and its inhabitants. Cass lives in so-called "Denver" with their dog Jupiter.Ìý