Cassie Stocks

{{short description|Canadian writer}}

Cassie Stocks (born 1966) is a Canadian writer, who won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2013 for her debut novel, Dance, Gladys, Dance.[http://www.cbc.ca/books/2013/04/cassie-stocks-wins-stephen-leacock-award.html "Cassie Stocks wins Stephen Leacock Award"]. CBC Arts, April 25, 2013.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, 1966,{{cite book |last1=Stocks |first1=Cassie |title=Dance, Gladys, dance |url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2854958&R=2854958 |publisher=Toronto Public Library |access-date=21 September 2022 |language=en}} Stocks is currently based in Eston, Saskatchewan.[https://leaderpost.com/news/Eston+author+wins+Leacock+Medal/8491504/story.html "Eston author Cassie Stocks wins Leacock Medal"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610185058/http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Eston%2Bauthor%2Bwins%2BLeacock%2BMedal/8491504/story.html |date=June 10, 2013 }}. Regina Leader-Post, June 7, 2013. In addition to her writing, she worked at the town's Co-op store.[https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/Hingston+Cassie+Stocks+Leacock+cause+celebration/8328561/story.html "Cassie Stocks’s Leacock win cause for celebration in Eston, Sask."]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Edmonton Journal, May 2, 2013. She worked at a steel plant when she was first accepted to a writing workshop at the Banff Centre in 2002, and subsequently left that job to study professional writing at Grant MacEwan University.