Amy E. Casey is the author of the novel The Sturgeon’s Heart (2022). Her work explores the force of the natural world and the internal landscapes of human possibility. Her writing is speculative, intimate, strange, and lyrical.

Amy lives and writes in Wisconsin, near the cold freshwater shore of Lake Michigan. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals throughout the United States. She does a large portion of her writing on a Smith Corona Classic 12 typewriter. She is a committed advocate for the role of the arts in personal and public spaces as a keystone of culture and human experience.

Amy’s debut novel The Sturgeon’s Heart earned honorable mentions at the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Awards (2022), and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (2023). The novel also received a starred review in Booklist magazine. For her short fiction and poetry, Amy is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

Supporting the literary community, Amy currently serves on the masthead at Major 7th Magazine and regularly teaches writing workshops at bookstores, writing conferences, and other art spaces.