Emily Arnason Casey is a writer and teacher, originally from Northern Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a Bachelors in English Literature and Minor in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and earned her M. F. A. at Vermont College of Fine Arts where she studied fiction and creative nonfiction. She lives in rural Vermont with her family.

Her writing has appeared in journals such as Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, The Briar Cliff Review, Hotel Amerika, The Normal School, Hunger Mountain, American Literary Review, and her essay “Laughing Water” received a notables listing in the Best American Essay series. Made Holy, her debut collection of essays was published by the University of Georgia Press Crux series in literary nonfiction. Her work has been supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Arts Council.

She is currently a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Vermont. She works with writers as a manuscript consultant, editor, and writing coach, and facilitates online writing salons through area libraries.