Amy Sterling Casil (born 1962) is a science fiction writer from Los Angeles, California, now living in Florida.
Her mother, Sterling Sturtevant, was an art director for animated films who worked for Walt Disney, Playhouse Pictures, UPA and Charles Schulz.
A four-year National Merit Scholar, she graduated from Scripps College in 1983 with bachelor's degrees in British and American Literature and Studio Art.
In 1999, she received her MFA in creative writing from Chapman University with full honors, under committee chair James P. Blaylock.
"Jonny Punkinhead," which appeared in the July 1996 New Writers issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, was her first published genre story.