Caridad Cole is a speculative writer and filmmaker whose work often dances with magical realism and ruralism, lookalikes and loneliness, and gothicism and the grave.

Her writing has appeared in Vocivia Magazine, Coffin Bell Journal, The Garden-Variety Grimoire Anthology (The Word’s Faire Press), The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color 2024 (EastOver Press), and elsewhere. She is a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee and was the 2018 recipient of three creative writing grants from Words for Charity.

In 2023, she founded the speculative literary and art magazine, Moonday Mag.

Under her own banner, pico bonito, she creates fringe short films and animations, including the official music video for Lowell's "Bloodthirsty".