Casey Downing grew up in Colorado, received his BA in English from Colorado State University and has not stayed put since. He has lived and worked in California, Wyoming, Ireland, Argentina, New York and India. Casey spent the past two years in New York working as an NGO consultant on economic, social and human rights issues at the United Nations. He currently lives in southern India, working for a human rights organization that fights human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Still, he thinks poetry is probably more important than lawmaking.