The Horror Tree Presents: Author Interview – Cassondra Windwalker

The Horror Tree Presents: Author Interview – Cassondra Windwalker By Lionel Ray Green Author and poet Cassondra Windwalker begins 2024 with the publication of What Hides in the Cupboards, a powerfully evocative modern gothic novel about regret and grief.  The book is set for release Jan. 30 by horror and crime publisher Unnerving and is available for pre-order on Amazon. What Hides in the Cupboards is about a ceramic artist named Hesper Dunn who’s moved from Chicago to New Mexico with her husband Richard following an accident. Their new house is cursed with a tragic history, leading Hesper down a dark path where she encounters ghosts of the past. Windwalker, whose previous works include Idle Hands and Hold My Place, is also an accomplished poet. Her collection The Bench, available through Evening Street Press, won the 2020 Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize for its “documentary-like precision.” Windwalker agreed to an exclusive email interview with Lionel Ray Green for The Horror Tree about her new release and her award-winning poetry collection The Bench. LIONEL: What did winning the Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize for The Bench mean to you as an artist? CASSONDRA: Winning the Helen Kay Chapbook Award and securing publication for The Bench meant the world to me. It was like finally being able to draw a breath after being held underwater. The Bench addressed many issues, from bigotry centered on racism or sexual identity to homelessness and loneliness and the solitary nature of being a social animal, all through the lens of what the pandemic did to us. It’s my most narrative and cohesive work of poetry – each poem centers around the perspective of a single person who intersects in some way with the subject of the next poem at a city bench. LIONEL: Do you prefer...
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