Coco Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and curator. Her novel, The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press, 2022), won the 2020 Women’s Prose Award. She is the author of The Strangers Among Us (Astrophil Press, 2017) and The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017). Art criticism and comics have otherwise appeared in places like Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Paris Review, and the Chicago Reader, where her contributions won the 2022 Innovative/Format Buster Alt Weekly Award and a 2025 Lisagor Award. She founded the Green Lantern Press in 2005 and served as the Executive Director until it was adopted by the Hyde Park Art Center in 2022. Curating exhibitions under the name Caroline Picard, she has presented shows at UIC’s Gallery 400, The Renaissance Society, La Box, ENSA, and more. From 2014-2019, she Co-Directed Sector 2337 and in 2025, completed an MPhil in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at the University of Oxford. She since relocated to the Bay Area, working as the Associate Publisher at City Lights while coediting the Art after Nature series for University of Minnesota Press.