Caridad Cole is a Los Angeles-based speculative writer and filmmaker who is absolutely obsessed with the strangeness of dreams and the surrealism of nightmares. Her poetry has appeared in Tiger Leaping Review and Vocivia Magazine, she has forthcoming fiction in the Rural Writers of Color Anthology Vol. 2 (EastOver Press), and she is the 2018 recipient of three awards by Words for Charity for her short stories "Empty Houses" and "In a Town Called Albatross". Although tending towards the darker side of things, Caridad most often works in magical realism, a tradition she weaves throughout her multidisciplinary work, as well as in the literary and art magazine she founded in 2023, Moonday Mag.
In her free time, she rescues secondhand clothing, practices henna, and whispers folktales to anyone who will listen. If you'd like to collaborate, she's available for copyediting, directing, and designing. You can contact her directly @ caridadishere@gmail.com or follow her through the tunnels of the internet. ↴