Casie Hermansson teaches English at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas (just a tad south of KC!). Her PhD is from the University of Toronto.

She loves to write, and is currently polishing a MG manuscript, and working on two YA novels that compete for her attention.

Books published:

Title: Parental Guidance Ratings (Abdo, 2013)

Title: How to Analyze the Films of Clint Eastwood (Abdo, 2012)

Title: L8Tr H8Tr (Heinemann, 2012)

Title: Summer of the Plague (Heinemann, 2012)

Title: Unaccompanied (Heinemann, 2012).

Title: Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition
Summary: An academic survey of 300 years of this grisliest of fairy tales in our very own Anglo-American traditions, from folk- and fairy tale through art, music, drama, chapbooks both for children and for adults. University Press of Mississippi (2009).

Title: Feminist Intertextuality Through Bluebeard Stories
Summary: A look at how twentieth century women’s writers rewrote theory from the inside-out by using the Bluebeard fairy tale. Edwin Mellen Press (2001).

Additional published work:

Casie Hermansson has also published fiction, non-fiction and poetry in national magazines.

Author visits:

Availability:
Year round, school days!

Presentations:
“Once upon a time… The end.” How to grow the middle of a story!

Problems, problems, problems. How to use problems and solutions in your stories!

Audience:  Elementary

Website: http://www.casiehermansson.com