Casey Gerald

Bio

Casey Gerald is the author of There Will Be No Miracles Here, a memoir that stands the American Dream narrative on its head, while straddling the complex intersection of race, class, religion and sexuality. TWBNMH was named a Best Book of the year by NPR and The New York Times, and was described by novelist Marlon James as “the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time.” Casey’s essays include “The Black Art of Escape,” published in New York Magazine, which was selected by Longform as one of the best essays of 2019, and “Leon Bridges After Dark”, a 10,000-word cover story for Texas Monthly’s August 2021 issue. His two TED Talks have been viewed over five million times, and he opened for President Barack Obama at SXSW 2016. He is at work on his next book.