Cyrus Cassells, UTV faculty (2020 & 2021) and a professor in the Department of English at Texas State University, has been named a 2022 Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets.
The author of nine poetry collections, Cassells is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim, the Lannan Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2021, he was named Texas Poet Laureate by the Texas State Legislature.
