Casey Catherine Moore is a queer writer, writing coach, educator, curriculum designer, and program leader. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina, where her work focused on Latin poetry, invective, and gender studies. Her academic and creative writing centers gender, sexuality, and dis/ability and has appeared in publications including The Comparatist, Sinister Wisdom, and Samfiftyfour. Her narrative poetry collection, Psyche, which draws on Greco-Roman mythology and experiences of dis/ability, was published by Anxiety Press in September 2024.
Casey is the founder and host of Electric Euphoria, a queer and neurodivergent open mic, and the co-producer and co-host of Homo Stanzas, a queer poetry and comedy series. She also hosts the monthly open mic at Busboys and Poets Brookland. Her performance credits include the Kennedy Center, Poetry Out Loud, Dupont Underground, and the 2022 March for Medicare for All Rally in Washington, DC. Her work and open-mic communities are featured in the documentary series In Hind Sight.
Over her eighteen-year career in education, Casey has designed curricula and taught writing, literature, ancient languages, and classical culture across secondary, university, virtual, and community settings. She currently teaches English to incarcerated young adults at the DC Jail and serves as an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies, where she received the 2024 Tropaia Outstanding Faculty Award. She has also developed online and hybrid courses, trained and supported educators and teaching artists, led grant-funded programs, coordinated cross-functional partnerships, and created accessible learning experiences for participants with diverse educational backgrounds and support needs.
Workshop-based learning, reflective writing, and creative experimentation are central to Casey’s teaching and coaching. She has helped writers complete academic articles, novels, poetry manuscripts, memoirs, fantasy projects, and college and graduate school applications. Her coaching focuses on sustainable writing habits, productive and joyful creative practices, project completion, and navigating submission and application processes. She is especially skilled at differentiation and in supporting neurodivergent writers.
For Casey, teaching and writing are both forms of advocacy. She combines creativity, theory, accessibility, and practical program leadership to build learning environments that value diversity, promote equity, and help people develop confidence in their voices.