Aileen Cassinetto

Aileen Cassinetto was named a YBCA 100 honoree in 2023 for her contributions in building regenerative and equitable communities through poetry. A 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and 2022 Metro Film and Arts Foundation grantee, she also served as San Mateo County Poet Laureate from 2019-2022. Her work has appeared in American Poets, poets.org, and Poetry Magazine, and West Trestle Review, among others. She co-edited the climate change anthology, Dear Human at the Edge of Time, a companion to the congressionally-mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), and wrote the lyrics to Saunder Choi’s “Wide American Earth,” which premiered at Carnegie Hall in June 2023.