WRITER
Bio
Kristin Casey is a recovered alcoholic and addict who’s rigorously inventoried her every resentment and relinquished ninety percent of them. She’s survived clinical depression, numerous addictions, the panhandle of Texas, and seventeen years of Catholicism.
Her first book Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh, was released by Rare Bird Books in March 2018. It documents a tumultuous six-year relationship with rock legend and Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, their drug-fueled train-wreck breakup, and her ensuing suicidal spiral.
Her writing has appeared in The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Please Kill Me, $pread, The Fix, and elsewhere. She writes about addiction, dependency, intimacy, and sexuality with particular expertise in areas of the commercial sex industry. She resides in Austin, Texas, and works as a certified sexuality counselor, intimacy coach, and IPSA trained Surrogate Partner.
MEMOIRIST
Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh
Far from bitter or self-pitying, Rock Monster is a grippingly honest account of one woman’s life-changing experience in a relationship with guitar legend Joe Walsh. At once envious, glamorous, debauched and disturbing, it’s her journey from life in the fast lane to redemption and sobriety.
Joe is a forty-year-old rock-and-roll legend, famed guitarist and former Eagles member. Kristin is a stripper half his age, in college to be a screenwriter. Recently off meth, she is studious and lonely. Joe is a longtime addict, newly single and spiraling.
She calls him her soul mate; he calls her his family. Together they are a fairytale gone awry with celebrity friends, torrid affairs, piles of cocaine, and bondage games on the side. Sam Kinison dies; Stevie Nicks might be high; Ringo brings peace, love, and magic. There’s a marriage proposal on crack (two, to be exact) and hefty dose of every addiction known to man.
The luckiest girl alive is a train going off the rails. “Pleasure seeking and pain management look a lot alike to outsiders,” says Kristin. “Insiders too, for the record.”
Rock Monster is one insider’s spellbinding story. Pulling no punches, she shares personal details with self-awareness, humor, and affection. Sharply written, bold and incisive, it’s the worldly-wise tome only an ex-addict, ex-stripper, and ex-rock-chick could give us.
MEMOIR TRILOGY
Books #2 & 3
In a word...
Rock Monster is about dependency, and not just on cocaine & alcohol but on romantic partners, relationships, and a half-formed identity as "rock star's girlfriend."
Book 2 is about tackling the complicated arena of dating, sex, and intimacy in early sobriety, learning to be vulnerable in a healthy way while entering into relationships with genuine authenticity.
Book 3 covers Kristin's work as a professional companion & sacred intimate through her 40s, finally learning how to maintain healthy boundaries while connecting intimately with her clients.
