Cassandra  is an aspiring writer and an enthusiast of words, music, and traveling.  By the age of 5 she lived in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Iceland. Four years later, she moved to upstate New York, where she embraced her inspiration to write. She has since attended Jefferson Community College while working on her Associates in Business Administration and Eastern Nazarene College to work on her Bachelors in English. She joined the U.S. Navy in 2006, and serves in Norfolk, Virginia as an IT. She has published poetry at a very young age, performed in readings for her college open mic nights, and is now taking on the art of journalism and screenplay writing; as well as traveling Europe and the Middle East.  An assortment of music has served as inspiration to this young writer. Artists include everyone from Louis Armstrong, John Legend, and J. Holiday to Atreyu,  Sublime, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Journey.  Her eclectic collection of writings is comprised of authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nicholas Sparks, Walt Whitman, and Simon R. Green.  Cassandra maintains her stride towards her passion for writing and hopes to be an addition to her assorted collection of authors someday.