Casper is a writer from Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut novel is set for publication through Penguin Random House in early 2027. Her work has appeared in Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories (ed. Tobias Madden) and Vox Populi (Bowen Street Press), and she self-published a limited-run poetry collection titled Cry Baby. She holds a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing, and Editing from the University of Melbourne, where her debut novel was developed as her thesis project and awarded first-class honours.

Her writing is driven by a desire to evoke the aching, gravitational pull of adolescence–that dense, inarticulate longing for something more. Her fiction blends tenderness with teeth: visceral, atmospheric, and deeply tied to place, with the Victorian surf coast often becoming a character in its own right. Through supernatural hauntings, body horror, and psychological suspense, she explores the emotional terrain of guilt, identity, and grief.

She’s obsessed with writing about/for teenagers because she thinks they’re the most emotionally honest people on the planet and her work captures their fragility, intensity and complexity with lyricism, dark humour, and a softness for living in grey areas.

She teaches trauma-informed yoga and is fascinated by how the body becomes a site of both tension and transformation—a theme that echoes throughout her work. Casper approaches movement and self-development the same way she approaches story: with curiosity, discipline, and a willingness to push into discomfort. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found in the ocean, surfing averagely but enthusiastically. Between sets, she floats on her board thinking about metaphor and the emotional currents that pull people toward change.