Cassandra de Alba is a poet living in Massachusetts.  Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively, and Ugly/Sad was released by Glass Poetry Press in 2020. She is a co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge and an associate editor at Pizza Pi Press, and was recently named a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.