Casey O'Banion

Adjunct Instructor
MFA, Antioch and USC/LA

Biography

Casey O'Banion is a writer and adjunct member of the English Department at LSU, currently teaching legal writing. He got his Bachelor’s in Creative Writing, Juris Doctorate from LSU, and has an MFA from Antioch and USC in Los Angeles. His debut novel, Chinese New Year (JMH Publishing, 2023), made the very long list for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, and his other work, which focuses on East Texas, the great indoors, chain Mexican restaurants, his cat, the south, and his friends and family, can be found in Whalebone Magazine, The Hyacinth Review, The Dead Mule, Powder Out Press, and more across the internet as well as an upcoming collection of essays. A Pushcart Prize nominee, O'Banion has also been a finalist in multiple New Yorker cartoon caption contests. He and his wife have four kids (Flannery, Henry, Sonny, and Corinne), and he manages a hyper-successful fantasy baseball team.

Area(s) of Interest

Southern Gothic, works of Bill Waterson, satire