Kasey Perkins, who teaches under Kasey Grady, is a professor, freelance editor, and writer who completed her MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2014. She is the recipient of the 2014 Margaret Leong Children’s Poetry Prize and received her MA in English at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, where she was both a frequent performer and organizer in the poetry slam community. She was a reader for Sundress Press’s Best of the Net from 2017 until 2024. Her chapbook, When the Dead Get Mail, was released through Finishing Line Press in 2019.

Overall, her poetry and poetry book reviews have appeared in Book of Matches, Red Ogre Review, the Chattahoochee Review, Chariton Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, the Wisconsin Review, Lumina, and many more. She currently teaches first year writing, foodways courses, and medical humanities poetry courses at Washington University in St. Louis.

Her scholarly interests include poetry, memoirs, food writing, writing pedagogy, mentoring first generation and low income college students, and pop culture adaptations of classic literature. When not engrossed in the world of reading and writing, she loves to cook, turn her kitchen island into a massive party snack board, watch bad television, and spend time with her people.