Megan Cassiday

Megan Cassiday has a BA in Creative Writing from SVSU, is completing her MFA at the Bluegrass Writers Studio, and is the EIC of Dead Fern Press. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Back Patio, Bullshit Lit, The Daily Drunk, and others.

MI, United States

Selected work (6 publications)

kicking your ass – a literary beatdown, 2023

Except When it's Not Cracking your jaw and pulling out your own teeth, leaving them on the mantle. A reminder that you do what you can. Love is a dog from hell, except when it is Monday morning and your floors are clean and his eyes are green in your green bedroom.

The Daily Drunk, 2023

Wes Anderson Plans My FuneralA poorly photocopied notebook page is on the paper. The top of the notebook entry reads SUICIDE NOTE. There are 100 copies and less than 10 people in the room, corpse included.

Moot Point Magazine, 2023

In Which I am not Colin Farrell falling in love with Rachel Weisz in the 2015 mediocre absurdist dark comedy, The Lobster. Instead, I am thinking about taking seven pink feather boas from the gift shop and caking them to my body with mud, about practicing my balance and how to fall down and if the other birds would really care that I wasn’t organic, authentic, homegrown.

Bullshit Lit, 2023

Color StudyThe yellow stays for a while and Henry is content, but eventually it begins to crack and fade. Workers at Home Depot refuse to sell him any more when he shows up to the paint counter weeping. In the shower he watches what’s left escape down the drain

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Six Questions For...

An Interview with Megan Cassiday, EIC at Dead Fern Press