Pruyn, Cassie: - Cassie Pruyn is a New Orleans-based writer and researcher, born and raised in Portland, Maine. She is the author of Lena, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry (Texas Tech University Press 2017). Her poems, reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications. To read more of her work, including her blog about Bayou St. John, visit her website at cassiepruyn.com.