Casey Nowak graduated from the University of Michigan's School of Art and Design in 2011. They live in Ann Arbor.

In addition to their award-winning mini-comics such as "Radishes" and "Diana's Electric Tongue" (both collected in Girl Town), Nowak has drawn twelve issues of Lumberjanes and created two Buffy the Vampire Slayer middle-grade books, New School Nightmare and The Cursed Coven.