about

Chris Cocca is from Allentown, PA. His work has been published at venues including Hobart, Brevity, Pindeldyboz, elimae, The Huffington Post, O:JAL, Rejection Letters, Mineral Lit Mag, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Perhappened, Anti-Heroin Chic, FEED, Belt Magazine, Bandit Fiction, Free Flash Fiction, Dodging the Rain, The Shore, Earth & Altar, Appalachian Review, and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana; cited in Music, Theology, and Justice (Rowman & Littlefield) and Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better by Jonathan Fitzgerald; and anthologized by Hippocampus Press and Nick Virgilio Writer’s House. An early poem won the Creager Prize for Creative Writing at Ursinus College. “The Effects of Ground-Level Ozone on the Ecology of Pennsylvania Highways” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by The Shore.

He is a graduate of the New School’s Creative Writing program (MFA) and Yale Divinity School.

Selected publications can be found here. Subscribe to his Substack (free) here.