Cassidy McCants is a writer and editor from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received her B.A. in creative writing from University of Arkansas and her M.F.A. in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She’s the former managing editor of Nimrod Journal and is creator/editor of Apple in the Dark. Her prose has appeared in The Lascaux Review, Liars’ League NYC, Gravel, The Idle Class, filling Station, Witch Craft Magazine, Grist, Clackamas Literary Review, The Plentitudes, The Creative Field Guide to Northeastern Oklahoma, Skink Beat Review, and other publications. She won the 2020 Innovative Short Fiction Contest from The Conium Review, and her stories have received honorable mentions from Glimmer Train Press.
Cassidy was a 2020 Artist INC fellow and teaches classes on short fiction through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the OSU-Tulsa Center for Poets and Writers.