Siobhan Casey earned her MFA from Chatham University in 2011, with a focus in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction. At Chatham, she worked on the Fourth River Literary Journal and later as an editor for Weave Magazine. She also received a M. Ed in Special Education from Lesley University. Since then, she has been integrating her love of the written word into community-building and inclusive elementary education endeavors. She published her first chapbook, Three Fourths of a Dream, in 2016. Her second collection of poetry, Tyger-Tyger, is forthcoming in 2026 through Finishing Line Press.

Siobhan’s poetry confronts personal and societal darkness and division with the light of storytelling, imagination, and introspection. She ascribes to Cormac McCarthy’s philosophy: “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden…”