Christopher Cocca is a Pennsylvania writer and advocate. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Brevity, elimae, Pindeldyboz, Geez Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Generate, and elsewhere. He writes for the religion and media verticals at The Huffington Post and is always interested in new publishing opportunities.
Chris earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 2005 and MFA in fiction at The New School in 2011. Much of his work explores the ways social networking, media, and literature can advance the sharing of important content and the telling of good stories. He currently serves as the Outreach Coordinator for the Air Quality Partnership of Lehigh Valley – Berks and as the Director of Mission at First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, PA.
If you’re interested in talking to Chris for a short or long-term creative project, consultation, or progressive ministry need, contact him through the form below or through his LinkedIn profile. He also considers requests for speaking and facilitation engagements.
This blog has seen many iterations and foci. Current mood: general interest, politics, media, writing, faith and spirituality, tech, comic books, literature, publishing, art, movies, tv, music, Desmond Hume’s awesome sunglasses, naming conventions for your uniquely-surnamed relatives, retro-futurism, baseball, the space race, the MFA, living as a working writer, social networking, parenting, travel, justice, etc. If you’re interested in submitting a guest post along these lines for consideration, you’re encouraged to do so here.
Selected work and contact information below. Thanks for visiting!
At The Huffington Post
My blogger profile and links to my posts
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Fisher Kings (in Generate Issue 2)
Creative Nonfiction (one of my @ccocca tweets was featured in the print edition of Issue 39).
I Love You When You’re Pretty (at Pindeldyboz)
Easy Gods (in Geez Magazine)
Evensong (at elimae)
So We Had A Wake (at Slingshot)
The Insult (at Six Sentences)
My Brother Was Music (in Six Sentences Vol 2)
It Ain’t Me (at Admit 2 PDF)
Progress (at Six Sentences)
The Good Thief (at Tuesday Shorts and Foundling Review)
To The Biographers of Caesar (a poem TheOoze)
Last Stand In The Closing Country (at Brevity)
A Winter Ascetic (at Thieves Jargon)
Twitter Fiction (at Nanoism)
Defining the Indefinite: What Faith and Indie Music Have In Common (at Patrol)
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