Maud Casey is the author of five works of fiction, most recently The City of Incurable Women (Bellevue Literary Press, 2022); and a nonfiction book, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions (Graywolf). She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The City of Incurable Women grew out of a collaboration with the photographer Laura Larson. She lives in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the University of Maryland.
During her 2009 residency, she worked on her novel The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury, 2014) and during her 2018 residency, she began work on her novel-in-progress, provisionally titled Sometimes the Light.
