About me
Kasey Grady, who publishes under Kasey Perkins, is a teacher, freelance editor, and writer who completed her MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2014. She also holds a MA in English with a focus on writing pedagogy and a BA in English with a focus on composition, both from Truman State University. Overall, her poetry and poetry book reviews have appeared in the Book of Matches, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Chattahoochee Review, Chariton Review, the Wisconsin Review, the Oracle, Lumina, and many more. Her poetry has won some prizes, such as the 2014 Margaret Leong Children’s Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for others, such as the Arcadia Ruby Irene Poetry prize.
In addition to teaching first year writing, foodways, and medical humanities writing courses at Washington University in St. Louis, she serves as the faculty advisor for WuSLam, the university poetry slam team, and WUPR, the university political review. She works in a variety of service capacities, such as progress counseling first generation/limited income students and serving on the university wide curriculum committee, academic integrity committee, and the board of women faculty. Her scholarly interests include food studies, writing pedagogy, interdisciplinary courses such as medical humanities, and first year programming.
Her first book, When the Dead Get Mail, is a poetry collection (2019) through Finishing Line Press.