Cassandra A. Lane, M.F.A.

Cassandra Lane is Managing Editor of L.A. Parent magazine in Los Angeles. She is a former staff reporter for The News-Star and Times-Picayune. Additionally, her stories have appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, anthologies and storytelling venues, including The Source, BET Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Writer’s Resist, Ms. Aligned, Raising Mothers, the forthcoming book Fury, Expressing Motherhood and the New York Times’ “Conception” series. She recently served on an AWP panel entitled “Writing & Mothering: Black Women Writing Under a Quadruple ‘Minority’ in America.”

Lane published her first full length book "We Are Bridges: A Memoir" with Feminist Press in 2021.

She received her BA in journalism from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University.