Kelly Cass Falzone

Kelly Cass Falzone is a Nashville-based poet, artist, and educator originally from Rochester, New York. Her poetry has appeared in Stone Canoe, Nashville Arts Magazine, and Clackamas Literary Review. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University and an MSEd in Counselor Education from SUNY Brockport. Falzone has been recognized with several poetry honors, including the Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry, the Libba Moore Gray Prize in Poetry, and two Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Awards. She also wrote, produced, and directed stage shows and was named an OZ Arts/Porch Art Wire Fellow for 2024-2025.