Dr. Emmanuel Ortega on redefining ex-votos
The following comic was originally published by the Chicago Reader in February 2024.
Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prose Prize, Red Hen Press (2022).
“The Healing Circle asks, with a wry smile, what it means to live, what it means to die.” — Babi Oloko, LA Review of Books
“Seeking a cure at the expense of all else, Picard both beautifully and poignantly captures how the desire to be well becomes a trap all its own.” – Ben Tanzer, Lit Reactor
“The Healing Circle showcases Picard’s natural flair for crafting a novel of serious substance with a flair for humor in service to the human condition.” —Midwest Book Review
“The Healing Circle is a far-reaching, honest, and funny novel about dying and living, a kind of pilgrimage to wholeness through uncertainty and disorientation. Full of resonance, it asks what it means to heal, to be in pain, to be a person.” —Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy
“The Healing Circle is wry, subtle, and daring. Coco Picard has written a vivid novel about living, dying, and remembering.” —Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
The following comic was originally published by the Chicago Reader in February 2024.
The following comic was originally published by the Chicago Reader in February 2024.
The following comic was first published by the Chicago Reader in January 2024.
The following comic was published by Electric Literature in November 2023.
The following article was published by Southwest Contemporary in November 2023. The Art of Ben Aleck, on view through January 7, 2024, at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, surveys Aleck’s engagement as an artist, educator, and enrolled member of the Pyramid Lake… +