Coco X. Huang
writer
musician
intermediast
About
Coco X. Huang is a Chinese-Australian writer, musician and scientist. She primarily writes fiction and poetry and enjoys creating intermedia: interdisciplinary hybrid works that challenge and extend conventional forms.
She won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize and has received a Faber Writing Academy Scholarship and Caruso Writing Residency at the KSP Writers' Centre. She has also been shortlisted for the Booranga Prize for Prose and the Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for Poetry.
She is a Toolkits: Digital Storytelling and Citizen Writes alumna and has performed at the National Young Writers' Festival, Boundless Festival, Sydney Festival and QPoetry! 2024. Her works have appeared in Meanjin, Voiceworks, the Australian Poetry Journal, HEAT, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Meniscus, fourW and elsewhere.
Coco lives and works on Gadigal and Dharug Country in Sydney. She is partial to strange books, bubble tea and hoodies with character. If you know a foolproof mug cake recipe, kindly let her know on Instagram or X/Twitter @cocoxhuang. For more on her research on AI, bioinformatics and women's health, find her on LinkedIn below.
