Kassie Rene is a writer, editor, and creative director based in London. She runs the independent literary magazine Virgo Venus Press.  

With more than 12 years of experience as a copywriter, Kassie has worked both agency-side and in-house. She specializes in brand tone & voice development and direct-response writing for fintech companies. Her most recent role was at Robinhood, where she oversaw the development of all comms for the U.K. 

When she’s not writing for brands, Kassie is often, still, writing or editing. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Hobart Pulp, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. In 2025, her essay “My Super Is Just Like Every Man In My Life” was selected as a finalist & honorable mention for the Terry Tempest Williams Prize by her home country’s oldest literary magazine, North American Review. Additionally, she has published several zines, an experimental book entitled, what’s worse? me or AI?, and a collection of poetry on Twitter (when Twitter was still Twitter).

Kassie is currently on track to graduate from City St. George’s University of London with an MA in Creative Writing & Publishing in January 2027. Her dissertation is a book-length memoir essay about the intersection of intergenerational trauma bonds, pleasure, and pain.