Cassandra grew up both in Sausalito, California and in the Australian Outback. She studied in England at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Slavic Languages and Literature. At Berkeley, she was awarded a President's Fellowship to translate and produce three Russian One-Act plays with Professor Simon Karlinsky and Professor Andrew Wachtel, now a Dean at Northwestern University. As Cassandra Webb, she had a successful acting career in Australia, starring as Suzi in the British Sci Fi film Starship, and played the blind Kelly Burns on the successful Australian television series Sons and Daughters. Her stage work includes Nora in the Australian National Premiere of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Australian National Tour of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and she portrayed several of Shakespeare's heroines Hermia, Juliet and Desdemona. She starred in Peter Gabriel's video of San Jacinto. Cassandra Wiseman lives happily and haphazardly in the wild woods of Topanga Canyon and has three children. She has served on boards of several charities, focusing on feeding the hungry and providing free classes in the arts to children at risk. She has created many school fundraisers. Her non-fiction essays have been published online on Freshyarn and in print in the Topanga Messenger and Marinscope..