Meg Cass (they/them) is a trans fiction writer, teacher, sewist, and zinester who lives in St. Louis, MO. Their first book, ActivAmerica (2017) was selected by Claire Vaye Watkins for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. Recent stories have appeared in Smoke and Mold, Ecotone, ANMLY, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Mississippi Review, and Passages North.

Their flash fiction has been anthologized in the Best of the Net (2025), Wigleaf Top 50 (2024, 2012), The Best Small Fictions Anthology (2024), and the SmokeLong Quarterly Best of the First 10 Years Anthology. Their writing has received support from the Jentel Artist Residency and the Ragdale residency program.

From 2003-2022, they volunteered in a range of roles at Sundress Publications, including assistant editor and co-founder of the Craft Chaps series. In St. Louis, they founded the virtual reading series Works-in-Progress and co-founded the Changeling Queer Reading Series with Sarah Tisdale, Kea Wilson, and Maurice Tracey. They teach in the English Department at University of Illinois Springfield.

Their current work-in-progress, a collection of fabulist short stories, twines grief, fiber arts, (eco) horror elements, and their experience coming out as trans at 39 and during the first year of the Covid pandemic.