Casey L. Ford is director of the Lamar University Writing Center and co-editor with Dr. Adam Nemmers of Review of Texas Books. She also teaches first-year composition and beginning courses in creative writing of poetry. She serves the department as a poetry judge for Pulse, LU's student-run literary magazine, and she currently serves on the boards of Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society, Beta Xi Chapter and Ubi Caritas, a Southeast Texas, non-profit, community health center.

Her forthcoming manuscript, entitled Shoreline Devotional, contains motifs of sun, earth, and unbridled nature in poems about growing up and living in Southeast Texas; decades of accumulated grief after deaths and hurricanes and pandemics, and the conflicts at the base of human existence and experience — the longing for religion and also its insufficiencies, the “seasoned hymn of the gulf” crashing upon its littered and polluted beaches, greed next to love, paradise next to hell, and the miracles of music alongside the enshrined skulls of ancestors. Casey's poems have been published by several Texas journals, and, most recently, one of her new poems was nominated by Last Stanza Poetry Journal for a prestigious Pushcart Prize.