Kass Fleisher

Helen Kassia (Kass) Fleisher (October 21, 1959 – January 6, 2023) was an American writer best known for her fiction and creative nonfiction.

Biography
Fleisher earned degrees in English from Dickinson College (B.A., 1981), the University of North Dakota (M.A., 1989), and Binghamton University (Ph.D., 1993). Fleisher was the author of five books and numerous essays and reviews, and the editor, with Caitlin M. Alvarez, of a literary anthology. With her frequent writing partner, Joe Amato, Fleisher wrote several screenplays (none of which have been produced to date). From 2003 to 2023, Fleisher was a member of the creative writing faculty at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She founded Steerage Press in 2011.

Books
As author
 * The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (SUNY Press, 2004)
 * Accidental Species: A Reproduction (Chax Press, 2005)
 * The Adventurous (Factory School, 2006)
 * Talking out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008)
 * Dead Woman Hollow (SUNY Press, 2012)

As editor
 * Collected US Writings 2015'' (Steerage Press), 2015)