Anne Casey is an award-winning Sydney-based Irish poet/writer and author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections – Portrait of a Woman Walking Home (Recent Work Press 2021); the light we cannot see (Salmon Poetry 2021); out of emptied cups (Salmon Poetry 2019) which was selected for Best Dressed 2020 (Sundress Academy for the Arts, USA) and Books of the Year 2019 (The Lonely Crowd, UK); and where the lost things go (Salmon Poetry 2017). Anne has won poetry prizes in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia, most recently the American Writers Review Competition 2021.

A journalist, magazine editor, legal author and media communications director for 30 years, Anne's work ranks in leading national daily newspaper, The Irish Times' Most Read, and is widely published and anthologised internationally – The Irish Poetry Reading Archive (James Joyce Library, University College Dublin), The Irish Times, The Canberra Times, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Atlanta Review, American Writers Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Australian Poetry Anthology, Griffith Review, Quiddity, Entropy, The Murmur House, Westerly Magazine and Cordite Poetry Review among many others.

Senior Poetry Editor of Other Terrain and Backstory literary journals (Swinburne University, Melbourne) from 2017 to 2020, Anne has served on numerous literary advisory boards and as Vice President on the board of Voices of Women creative arts collective. She is a regular guest editor for international literary journals and is a founding member of The Prankqueans Irish-Australian women's arts ensemble. A frequent headliner at literary events, conferences and universities, she has given reading tours in Australia, Ireland and the USA.

Anne holds an honours Law Degree from University College Dublin and qualifications in Media Communications from the Technological University Dublin. She is the recipient of an Australian Government Scholarship for her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney. 

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