Barbara Casey is president of her own literary agency, representing adult fiction and nonfiction as well as children's. She is also a manuscript consultant and the author of numerous articles, poems and short stories. Her seven award-winning novels have received national recognition, including the Independent Publishers Book Award. Her novel, The House of Kane, released in 2008, was considered for a Pulitzer nomination, and her latest novel, The Cadence of Gypsies, is being reviewed by the Smithsonian for its list of 2011 Best Books.

Ms. Casey has served as judge for the Pathfinder Literary Awards in Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida, and was the Florida Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators from 1991 through 2003. Ms. Casey's numerous professional associations include the position of editorial consultant for The Jamaican Writers Circle in affiliation with the University of West Indies and Mico Teachers College in Kingston. She also received special recognition for her editorial work on the English translations of Albanian children's stories.