Cassandra Featherstone has been writing since she could hold a pencil. She wrote her first story—about a girl picking strawberries—when she was three and has been creating worlds in her head ever since. After winning multiple awards for essays, poems, short stories and a very cheesy academy romance novel in high school, she was selected to attend the prestigious Governors School for the Arts in high school. Her love of the arts extends to instrumental (she plays three instruments and marched flute/piccolo for six years), dance (ten years of tap/jazz/ballet/tumbling), and vocal/acting (musical theater focus). She auditioned for many colleges but selected NYU for musical theater and lived in NYC for several years while she was in studio. After meeting her husband, she moved back to the Midwest and eventually had her one and only mini-me, affectionately known as the goblin. She has worked in many industries from banking to retail management and most recently, a decade in multiple positions at a indie bookstore until COVID-19 permanently closed her educational services department. Cassandra is passionate about literacy, but when she picked up her laptop to write her first published novel in March 2020, she decided to focus on subjects that not only spoke to her soul, but affected many of the women she’d met throughout her twisty life path. Bullying, PTSD, body dysmorphia, mental illness, reinvention, and claiming your space are always themes in her books, as well as a respectful, non-fetishized representation of LGBTQIA+ relationships. Her expansion of the reverse harem genre to include various types of polycules and diverse characters with three dimensional personalities, hopes, and dreams was less common when she first published, but to her delight, becoming a standard reader request in the current atmosphere. Because of her personal experiences in middle and high school, Cassandra is staunch defender of those who are targeted by those with actual or perceived power that attack those who don’t. She’s also known as the Muppet for her outrageous, extroverted personality and her wacky brand of theater kid social media posts and videos. Cassandra currently lives in the Midwest with her computer geek husband, artsy college goblin, and five cats that must have been spawned by Loki himself. Her works include sci-fi fantasy/urban fantasy, paranormal, humorous, and academy RH with characters over 18 and never include non-consensual elements.