Cassandra Atherton
Cassandra Atherton is one of the leading international scholars on prose poetry and an award-winning prose poet. She is a Distinguished Professor at Deakin University.
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Cassandra Atherton
Cassandra Atherton is one of the leading international scholars and experts on prose poetry and an award-winning prose poet. She is also renowned for her work in the scholarly field of ekphrastic poetry and is celebrated for coining the terms dark poetry—for poetry that attempts to reanimate a dark event, and ballophrasis—for works based on dance. She has written extensively on atomic bomb literature and hibakusha poetry and is currently writing a book of prose poetry on the Hiroshima Maidens. Cassandra co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020) and co-edited the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020) with Paul Hetherington and they are currently co-writing Ekphrastic Poetry: An Introduction (forthcoming Princeton UP). Cassandra is commissioning editor for Westerly magazine; series editor at Spineless Wonders; associate editor at MadHat Press (USA) and Dispatches editor at The Fortnightly Review. She is Distinguished Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University.