Cassie Flanagan Willanski

Cassie Flanagan Willanski is a writer and environmentalist. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in publications including Meanjin, and she received the SA Independent Arts Foundation Scholarship for Creative Writing in 2001, a Varuna Retreat Fellow­ship in 2011 and the Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award for Here Where We Live in 2014. Between 2002 and 2008 she volunteered and worked with the Conservation Council of South Australia, Friends of the Earth Adelaide's Clean Futures Collective, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Wilderness Society of South Australia, where she was Community Outreach Campaigner. She has a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, both from the University of Adelaide.