Crysta Casey, a former Marine Core journalist, now lives in Seattle, Washington. She has a BA in Liberal Arts from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was born in Pasadena, California and has lived in Ohio and Texas.
She once worked for the City of Irvine, and was the first woman to work in Streets and Parks Maintenance there. Since moving to Seattle in 1980 she has concerned herself with the making of poetry.
Chrysta has been published in numerous literary journals, including Convolvulus, On the Bus and Fine Madness and is the author of a book of poems, Heart Clinic (Seattle: Bellowing Ark Press, 1993), which is dedicated to her doctor.
