Caits Meissner is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her poems, comics, nonfiction and curation have appeared in The Creative Independent, The Rumpus, [PANK], Harper’s Bazaar, Adroit, Literary Hub, Split This Rock, Bust Magazine, The Normal School, The Guardian and Oprah Daily, among others. She is the editor of PEN America's The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books, 2021), of which many thousands have been made available to readers in U.S. prisons for free thanks to The Mellon Foundation. With a DIY and entrepreneurial spirit, Caits has worked across a wide array of mediums, including music albums, comic zines, participatory community arts projects, illustration, and limited edition poetry books in tandem with small presses The Operating System and Well&Often.

Her current projects includes AUNT CAKES (menstrual clown rap), JUDY DOOM (multimedia punk fiction), and FLOWERS FOR LINDA (a podcast on grief & creativity).