Meg Cass (they/them) is a queer, trans fiction writer, teacher, and editor based in St. Louis, MO. ActivAmerica, their first book, was selected by Claire Vaye Watkins for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize and was published in 2017. Recent stories have appeared in Ecotone, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, and manywor(l)ds. Their flash fiction has appeared in the Wigleaf Top 50 and the SmokeLong Quarterly Best of the First 10 Years Anthology. In 2021 they co-founded Changeling, a queer reading series. They are also a co-founder of  the Craft Chaps series published by Sundress Publications. They teach creative writing, queer theory, and publishing at the University of Illinois Springfield. Meg holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette.