Cassandra Atherton is a Lecturer in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at Deakin University.

She has published a book of literary criticism, Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Study of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry (Australian Scholarly Press, 2007), a book of poetry, After Lolita (Ahadada Press, 2010), and a novel, The Man Jar (Printed Matter Press, 2010).

She is currently working on a book, Wise Guys, about American public intellectuals, based on her interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Harold Bloom, Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt and many more.