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."Cassie Stocks wins Stephen Leacock Award". CBC Arts, April 25, 2013.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, 1966, Stocks is currently based in Eston, Saskatchewan."Eston author Cassie Stocks wins Leacock Medal" . Regina Leader-Post, June 7, 2013. In addition to her writing, she worked at the town's Co-op store."Cassie Stocks’s Leacock win cause for celebration in Eston, Sask.". 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.
Works Dance, Gladys, Dance (2012, NeWest Press. .)
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