Cassandra Jeanne Farrin is a writer of fantasy and science fiction with a keen interest in history, culture, and religion. Her storytelling is a blend of poetry and humor, queer romance and found family, chasing after ethical questions in the kinds of oddball plots that she hopes can do justice to them.

A US-UK Fulbright Scholar with a Master’s in Religious Studies, Cassandra currently manages book production for the science fiction, fantasy, and horror imprint Erewhon Books and special edition romance and other commercial fiction at Kensington Books. She is an inaugural member of the Clarion 2025 Novel Writing Workshop and a two-time finalist for the Bath Novel Award. Her poetry can be found in places like Frontier Poetry, Cirque, and concīs. She’s still a farm girl at heart, who grew up bottle-feeding lambs and spying on toads in irrigation ditches, and she lives just down the road from her family’s old yellow farmhouse in rural Idaho with her identical twin sister and their three adoptive children.

Cassandra earned her Master’s from Lancaster University in England, which she earned with the support of a US-UK Fulbright scholarship, and her Bachelor’s in Religious Studies and English from Willamette University in Oregon. A Shin Buddhist, she is a longtime student of Japanese culture who studied interfaith dialogue with the support of a Lilly Foundation grant at Yale Divinity School and Japanese history & religion at Tokyo International University. She also taught English in Shizuoka, Japan, and worked in varying capacities for Tokyo International University of America.

Cassandra’s passion for greater interfaith and intercultural understanding led her to work for many years with a nonprofit and academic press dedicated to advancing religious literacy, and with the Elizabeth Bowers Zambia Education Fund, empowering women, children, and their community to break the cycle of poverty through education, for which she has proudly served as a member of the Advisory Board for many years.

When she isn’t intensely focused on making books and reading them, she plays Minecraft with her kids, coddles her many cats, plots road trips to the many random but brilliant museums scattered across the United States (especially industrial/railway and mining museums!), and takes long walks in the beautiful high desert landscape of Idaho.