This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. About Casey Parks’s new book, Diary of a Misfit: When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks’s […]
Casey Parks
CASEY PARKS is a reporter for the Washington Post. Her memoir Diary of a Misfit was named one of the best books of 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She spent a decade at The Oregonian, where she wrote about race and LGBTQ+ issues and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, ESPN, USA Today, and The Nation. Diary of a Misfit is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.
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