Kevin Casey was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1969. While in high school his family moved to northern Maine on the Canada border to operate a wilderness sporting camp. He has degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Connecticut. He works as a college professor and administrator. He lives in Norther Maine with his wife and three children. His chapbook For the Sake of the Sun (Flutter Press) appeared in 2015. While celebrating the harmony and permanence reflected in the natural world, his work also embraces the inevitable loss and longing that are part of the human condition.