Cass Dalglish

Cass Dalglish is known for diving deeply into the past to bring historical figures into communication with fictional characters. Her published works include: Sweetgrass, Lone Oak Press, a novel, mystery; Nin, Spinsters Ink, a novel tracing the history of women’s writing and offering an email debate between medieval women writers and misogynist male philosophers; Humming the Blues, Calyx Press, a jazz poetry interpretation of pictographs in the first signed document in history (2350 BCE Enheduanna). A Spanish language version of Humming is near completion. A kinetic interpretation, Enheduanna’s Song to Inanna, is available on YouTube. Cass holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in Writing with a concentration in Ancient and Archetypal Women’s Literature from the Union Institute & University. Her curiosity has also led her to the study of languages, mythology, and energy practice. As a professor of English at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Cass was lead designer and first director of Augsburg’s MFA in Creative Writing. Cass studied and lived in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Cuba, and traveled to Andalucía to research Ring of Lions. She lives in Minneapolis, where she worked early in her career as a broadcast journalist.