Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prose Prize + forthcoming from Red Hen Press in August 2022
A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a terminal diagnosis, memories, nurses, immoral doctors, foreign television broadcasts, and phone calls from children intrude upon her consciousness. An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky is her primary companion.
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.
The Healing Circle is wry, subtle, and daring. Coco Picard has written a vivid novel about living, dying, and remembering.
The following article first appeared in The Daily Beast in August of 2022. My Instagram feed is currently riddled with mushroom advertisements. A mushroom beverage exceeds coffee for focus and health benefits! Mushroom face serums provide youthful, plump-celled, and small-pored complexions! Another mushroom supplement… +
The following comic first appeared in the Chicago Reader in August, 2022.
The following article was first published by The Democracy Chain in September 2022. Currently on view at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, “52 Artists: A Milestone” pays tribute to “26 Contemporary Women Artists,” a landmark feminist exhibition curated by Lucy R. Lippard in 1971…. +
The following comic first appeared in the Chicago Reader in June 2022.
The following comics interview with long time collaborators Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller first appeared in the Chicago Reader in May 2022.