Casey Bloome makes art

Casey Bloome was a published author at age 10, if you count M.E.S.S., a self-printed serial superhero story sold to fellow classmates for 25¢ an issue. Their first literary recognition was a PTA Reflections Outstanding Interpretation award in 5th grade for The Writer, a poem about an author creating a fantasy story for his children. Casey's passion for creative writing continued through their time at the University of Virginia, where their sci-fi short story Marda's Moon was included in the short story collection Voices and Visions and their poem Cat on Lap won third place in the "2020 Extraordinary Moments" project, funded by the Jefferson Trust.

Casey is now seeking to publish their first long-form work, The Library in the Grotto, a middle grade fantasy novel about an aspiring lorekeeper who is accused of attacking the Queen and must prove his innocence while imprisoned in a magic library. Literary agents have requested pages from the book, which beta readers called “clever and creative”, with a “beautifully imagined world” that is “rich, immersive, and very well thought out”.