Amy Sterling Casil

Amy Sterling Casil (born 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is a Southern California science fiction writer. Her writing has often included Southern California themes. Her mother, Sterling Sturtevant was an Academy Award-winning art director for animated films who worked for Playhouse Pictures, UPA and Charles Schulz. A four-year National Merit Scholar, she graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, CA in 1983 with bachelor's degrees in British/A... more

Amy Sterling Casil (born 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is a Southern California science fiction writer. Her writing has often included Southern California themes. Her mother, Sterling Sturtevant was an Academy Award-winning art director for animated films who worked for Playhouse Pictures, UPA and Charles Schulz. A four-year National Merit Scholar, she graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, CA in 1983 with bachelor's degrees in British/American Literature and Studio Art. She was the first female editor and publisher of the Claremont Colleges' newsmagazine. She twice received the Crombie Allen Award for fiction writing at the Claremont Colleges. She attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop at Michigan State University in 1984. "Jonny Punkinhead," which appeared in the July 1996 New Writers issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, was her first published genre story. Casil was the director of Family Service Association in Redlands, California from 1987... less