ABOUT COCO
Coco McCracken is a Chinese-Canadian author and writer living in Portland, Maine. Her chapbook, The Rabbit, was selected by bestselling author Melissa Febos as the winner of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance’s 2021 Maine Chapbook Series. She was the recipient of a 2022 Ashley Bryan Fellowship. She was named a Lit Fest Fellow by the MWPA, in which capacity she helped organize the state’s first inaugural Maine Lit Fest.
She was accepted for a residency for the 2022 summer season at Hewnoaks, where she was additionally awarded a grant from the Maine Arts Commission to complete her first manuscript. Between 2023-2026, she has been juror for the Maine Literary Awards, Greater Columbus Arts Council, and Hewnoaks Artist Residency. Her work has been featured in New York Times’ Wirecutter, Maine Magazine, LitHub, and Copy Mag, among others.
In 2026 she was invited to join the Board of Directors at the MWPA.
Coco McCracken is represented by Iris Blasi of Arc Literary Management. For all writing-related inquiries please contact Iris at iris@arcliterary.com
Portrait by Emma McIntyre (Marfa, TX)