Casey DW Jones is a professional marketing writer and a Pushcart-nominated author of short fiction. He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Casey served on Hamline’s Water~Stone Review as an assistant fiction editor and associate fiction editor. He is also the founding editor of Casino Literary Magazine, an online literary journal. A 2022-2023 Fellow in fiction for the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series, Casey resides in Northeast Minneapolis.