Norene Cashen MA, MSW

Writer | Content Creator | Healthcare

United States

Norene Cashen is a Michigan-based writer and Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who integrates creative communication and human connection. She has expertise in healthcare, CMS-regulated documents, and the arts. She holds master degrees in strategic communication (Michigan State University) and social work (Wayne State University).

Contributor to: Threefoldpress.org; Senior Living Foresight; AARP's newsletter The Ethel; ShrinkTank.com; The Collagist; Skillman Foundation Knowledge Center (Guest Blogger); Second Wave Media/Metromode Detroit (Guest Blogger); Teachers and Writers Magazine; C-Magazine (College for Creative Studies); Metro Times (Detroit); New Times (Kansas City); Orlando Weekly; Alternative Press; Orbit (Detroit); Rockrgrl Magazine; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Schirmer Books); Your Flesh Magazine; Times Herald/Gannett Newspapers (Port Huron); Jacket Magazine; The Rocket (Seattle); MusicHound Rock; The Essential Album Guide (Visible Ink Press); and the essay anthology, To Light a Fire (Wayne State University Press).

Portfolio
Threefoldpress
03/21/2021
whatremains - Three Fold

What RemainsReflections on a Decade of Poetry Lessons in Detroit 2008-2018 By Norene Cashen My poetry work bag hangs like an artifact on the back of my closet...

The Ethel
10/22/2020
It Works for Wizards: Embracing the Wisdom and Power of My White Hair

I'm not proud of it, but the truth is that my relationship with permanent hair color outlasted many other relationships in my life. And I was very loyal to it. I started experimenting with my naturally medium brown locks in high school. I'd go from black to auburn to brown, and back again.

Metro Times
07/23/2008
Acting Up

You may have seen him in recent television spots for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, touting the Mitten State as a good place to start a business.

Metro Times
5/26/1999
1+1=3

click to flip through (3) artwhiteajpg Part Gorie-fied garage shamanism and part beglittered T-Rex/Zeppelin splatter, White Stripes is – in a word – primitive.

Metro Times
10/29/2008
Stand-up Biography

Pablo Picasso said, "It takes a long time to become young." And Elaine Stritch proves him right.

National Endowment for the Arts
2015
National Endowment for the Arts: MY ART STORY by NORENE CASHEN

Our mottos are "trust yourself" and "keep on writing." We stand up and raise our hands to the sky to reach for an idea. We make crazy word lists. We make wild metaphors. We turn into superheroes. We say, "My heart is a river, my heart is a moon, my heart is an airplane."

Metromode Metro Detroit
01/09/2014
Guest Blogger, Norene Cashen for Metromode Metro Detroit

I never planned to teach creative writing in Detroit Public Schools, and I couldn't have predicted how it would change my life. Because children are so dynamic and artless, they write poems with remarkable honesty and purity.