Cass King is a raconteur: A singer of stories, a teller of songs. She is also a costumer, a musician, an event producer, and a sex columnist. Her book is called Überlesque: Cabaret Songs for the Fin Deux Millennium. She has been performing Überlesque in various guises since 1989.

"(King) looks as though she just stepped off of the set of the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink. She could sell the most rabid anti-smoking advocate a box of 10" Cubans." - Mike Usinger, The Vancouver Courier

Cass has performed her queer brand of spoken-sung verse at Bumbershoot, The Carmel Performing Arts Festival, CBGB's, the Du Maurier International Jazz Festival, SXSW, The Harrison Festival of the Arts, The Seattle Poetry Festival, The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, The Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Word On the Street, and in 1998 she won fifth place National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX. She has been featured on CBC TV, BRAVO, The Knowledge Network, Baton, BCTV, and VTV. She has a handmade book called Nude Rude and Misconstrued Haiku and a cassette Combomatic: We called it Hep-Hop. Her poetry has been featured on www.cleansheets.com, she also has an essay and a poem published in Poetry Slam: The Art of Competitive Poetry (2000, Manic D Press)

"King brings a heavy dose of flash and off-kilter wit to her work,
as well as a magnificently confident presence." - The Austin Chronicle

In August 2000, King toured the eastern US on the Grand Marnier-sponsored SlamAmerica tour; upon returning to Vancouver, she was a featured cast member of The Idle Hands Variety Show, a Fringe fest favorite that garnered a five star review in the Vancouver Sun. In August of 2001, Cass received a Spoken and Electronic Word grant from the Writing and Publishing section of the Canada Council for the Arts. She is currently developing a CD Rom, which will feature spoken word, music, and Flash animated kinetic poetry. Her column Organ Grinder is published in Terminal City Magazine. By day she is a mild-mannered Retail Manager at Womyns' Ware, Canada's pioneering women's sexuality store.

"A Certified Drama Queen... A true entertainer." - Willamette Weekly