Coco X. Huang

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. 

Her cross-disciplinary works recently won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize and the Youth Award of the Remagine Art Prize. She has also received a Faber Writing Academy Scholarship and was 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 Voiceworks, Meanjin, the Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Meniscus, fourW and elsewhere.

Coco 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 in AI, bioinformatics and women's health, find her on LinkedIn below.