Casey Plett is the author of Little Fish and A Safe Girl to Love, both winners of a Lambda Literary Award. She is the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, and winner of a Stonewall Book Award. She has been published in The New York Times ArtsBeat, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and The Walrus. She has been awarded the Amazon First Novel Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and a Princeton Hodder Arts Fellowship.
During her residency at MacDowell, she worked on her short story collection A Dream of a Woman, completing a significant portion of the manuscript.