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 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. Her chapbook, When the Dead Get Mail, was published in 2019 through Finishing Line Press. Overall, her poetry and poetry book reviews have appeared in the Chattahoochee Review, Chariton Review, Digital Americana, Green Hills Literary Lantern, the Wisconsin Review, the Oracle, Lumina, and many more. In addition to facilitating summer creative writing workshops, she currently teaches first year writing and foodways courses at Washington University in St. Louis. She also advises and advocates for first generation, low income, and rural college students.