Cassandra Gillig is a writer, editor, and curator based between Chicago and Lawrence, KS. For work on Leslie Feinberg and Stone Butch Blues, Gillig is the Bibliographical Society of America's 2026 Blahnk New Scholar and has received support from Cornell University and Duke University. Gillig is a recipient of the Charles S. Longscope Jr. Writers and Artists Grant from The Gay & Lesbian Review and is working on a book about policing and anti-cop organizing in the gay 70s.

Gillig is a former co-organizer of microcinema and community space Stray Cat Film Center, where she programmed events with filmmakers like Shu-Lea Cheang, Lizzie Borden, and Elizabeth Purchell. Gillig was a 2022 Curatorial Fellow at the Poetry Project, which is also where she received her formative education in laying the poetic smackdown. She has worked on archival projects for the Poetry Project, Lambda Literary, community archives, universities, and independent presses. With Mara Mills, she is currently co-editing an archival expansion and revisitation of The Basketball Article by Bernadette Mayer and Anne Waldman, featuring basketball writing from twenty poets and scholars.

Gillig is co-translator of Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyó Vestrini (Kenning Editions, 2019) and has a decade of experience as a book designer and editor, working especially with poetry, non-fiction, and arts writing. Gillig works as the program coordinator for Trans Studies at the Commons, is a proud former Kansas public librarian, and has a background in community organizing and playing rock n roll music.

Email: gillig.cassandra at gmail.com