About The Artist
Meet Me!
I'm Cassandra Stump and I grew up on Long Island, New York. Being one of five kids is a huge part of my identity, my siblings are a huge part of who I am; I have one older brother and four younger sisters.
I started drawing portraits and animals when I was six as well as writing short stories and plays.
I enjoy doing nature photography, oil paintings, oil colored pencil drawings, working with children, hiking, running, playing chess, reading literally anything, listening to Podcasts, going to church, Bible studying, and big hangouts with all of my siblings.
About Bucolic
Bucolic is set in the sleepy town of Fairsage as it follows Libelle Jameson and her hectic group of friends. These teenagers take the reader along with them as they navigate through love, loss, laughter, and adventure, all while learning important lessons along the way. I use writing to capture a single moment, feeling, story, adventure, experience, or conversation to keep forever. I get to manipulate outcomes, create detailed fictional people, and build a world entirely of my own making. Writing Bucolic was a coping mechanism for me to understand that life wasn't always how I wanted it to be; I couldn't live in a perfect world (like Fairsage), so I created that ideal world and exposed its flaws. Life doesn't always have happy endings, so I wrote a book that emphasized that.
