It was as a graduate intern at a Sacramento CBS-affiliate television station that I stumbled into a story that became the bedrock for my 1992 nonfiction book, Little Girl Lost.  You can read more about the book, along with an excerpt, here.  Since its publication, I've continued to write for both newspapers and magazines.

 

I was enormously gratified to receive awards from the Society of Professional Journalists as well as Writer's Digest magazine for my article on a one-time homophobic father's efforts to deal with his gay son's emergence from the closet and diagnosis of--and eventual death from--AIDS.

 

More recently, I was awarded an Honorable Mention from the New Millennium Writers for my piece on the tuberculosis epidemic at the turn of the 20th century.

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You can read those articles, and a smattering of my other writing projects, here.

 

In addition to writing "Casey's Corner," a monthly column on life with dogs, and my work as a college professor, in February of 2020 I published a full-length novel, A Just Reckoning; 10 months later, I published the 2nd book in the Tess Alexander mystery series, A Cruel Oblivion. You can can read about those books here.