CASEY PARKS is a Washington Post reporter who covers gender and family issues. She spent a decade at The Oregonian, where she wrote about race and LGBTQ+ issues and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, ESPN, USA Today, and The Nation. Her memoir, “Diary of a Misfit,” was named one of the best books of 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and New York Public Library, and it won the 2023 Oregon Book Award. A former Spencer Fellow at Columbia University, Casey lives in Portland, Oregon.

Casey is available for speaking engagements through the Lyceum Agency.

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