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Meet Casey Mulligan Walsh
Hello! I’m so pleased you’re here.
I write about life at the intersection of grief and joy, embracing uncertainty, and the nature of true belonging. I’m excited to announce that my memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, is forthcoming from Motina Books in February 2025.
My work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, Next Avenue, Modern Loss, Hippocampus, Barren Magazine, and numerous other literary journals. My essay, “Still,” published in Split Lip, was nominated for Best of the Net. I’m also a founding editor of In a Flash Literary Magazine.
In addition to writing, I also serve as an ambassador and on the Board of the Family Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the genetic lipid disorder that has affected my family across generations.
I live in upstate New York with my husband, Kevin, a chatty orange tabby, and too many books to count.
Now that the official introductions are over, want to know more?
I’m a wife, mother, stepmother, mother-in-law, Mimi to ten beautiful grandkids, and friend to more women and men who inspire and uplift me than I can count. Lucky me.
My own life has been filled with relentless tragedy and wonderful joy, the low lows and high highs and everything in between. As a teenage orphan, a 20-year-old without parents or siblings, later as the parent of a child who died (why is it we still have no name for this?), I’ve seen that grief and joy can and do coexist, that how we choose to see the world impacts who we become. That, in the end, it’s all about connection. This principle, which has guided me in my search for meaning in loss, is the focus of my memoir, THE FULL CATASTROPHE: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, which I’m delighted to announce is forthcoming from Motina Books on February 18, 2025.
A former speech-language pathologist, these days I write memoir and creative nonfiction and travel with my husband, Kevin. We’re both ambassadors for The Family Heart Foundation, an organization devoted to raising awareness of familial hypercholesterolemia, the common yet vastly undiagnosed genetic disorder that has impacted my family across generations, as well as elevated Lp(a). I also write a patient perspective blog about this topic for WebMD. Please click on the links above and learn more. You may prolong or save a life.
I’d be honored to walk a while with you on your own journey through this messy life.
