Caroline (Coco) Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and curator. Published works include The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press, 2022), The Strangers Among Us (Astrophil Press, 2017) and The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017). She regularly contributes to Bay City News, Square Cylinder, 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. She has otherwise presented shows at UIC’s Gallery 400, The Renaissance Society, La Box, ENSA, and more. From 2014-2019, she Co-Directed Sector 2337, coedited Art after Nature (University of Minnesota Press) from 2017-2025, and in 2024, completed an MPhil in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at the University of Oxford.
She is the Associate Publisher at City Lights and teaches in the Environmental Art and Social Practice Department at UC Santa Cruz.