Casie E. Hermansson

Casie (Elizabeth) Hermansson was born in the US but grew up in New Zealand, graduating from Massey University with degrees in English and French. She traveled in Europe, working in London and teaching in a French high school before continuing her studies at the University of Toronto, where she completed her MA and PhD in English Literature. She now teaches in the English Department of a university in Kansas, thereby returning to live in the US after a 29 year absence.

Hermansson is the author of two books on the Bluebeard fairy tale, and academic articles. She is now writing children's picture books, chapter books, and middle grade fiction.