CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Hazlitt, and The Walrus. Giant Mother is her first novel.

"Seasonal affect falls into beautifully monstrous order in Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress, a collection tracking a year’s circuitous passage in New York, Toronto, and abroad. Writing from the disorienting clarity of grief and new love, McFadzean sutures these states into blunt longing—to savour every warp of the world and to hover outside its adjunct horrors, a lyric zone in which the poet can ‘sing like an animal clawing inside.’"— Daniel Poppick, author of Fear of Description

CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Hazlitt, and The Walrus. Giant Mother is her first novel.

"Seasonal affect falls into beautifully monstrous order in Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress, a collection tracking a year’s circuitous passage in New York, Toronto, and abroad. Writing from the disorienting clarity of grief and new love, McFadzean sutures these states into blunt longing—to savour every warp of the world and to hover outside its adjunct horrors, a lyric zone in which the poet can ‘sing like an animal clawing inside.’"— Daniel Poppick, author of Fear of Description

CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Hazlitt, and The Walrus. Giant Mother is her first novel.

"Seasonal affect falls into beautifully monstrous order in Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress, a collection tracking a year’s circuitous passage in New York, Toronto, and abroad. Writing from the disorienting clarity of grief and new love, McFadzean sutures these states into blunt longing—to savour every warp of the world and to hover outside its adjunct horrors, a lyric zone in which the poet can ‘sing like an animal clawing inside.’"— Daniel Poppick, author of Fear of Description