• The Bizzy Story

  • Bizzy Coy is a writer.

    She writes short humor, short fiction, personal storytelling, scripts and cartoon captions.

    Bizzy self-published her first book, PERSONAL SPACE: Short humor from The New Yorker, McSweeney's and beyond.

    Her short humor appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Vulture, Splitsider, The Belladonna, Points in Case, The Establishment. Her cartoons (in collaboration with artist Lia Strasser) appear in The New Yorker. Her short fiction has been published in Litt Magazine, Grand Journal and The Catskiller.

    She received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Screenwriting, Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland, MacDowell Fellowship, DVAA Individual Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation Grant and the Catskill Center's Platte Clove Artist Residency.

    She has read her work aloud at events hosted by MacDowell, Deep Water Literary Fest, An Evening of Humorous Readings, WJFF Radio Catskill, Yarnslingers, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Dublin City University and more.

    She graduated with a BA in Theater from SUNY Geneseo and an MA in Creative Writing from Dublin City University.

    She works as a freelance copywriter. She previously worked for digital agency Situation Interactive and Blue Man Group. Her copywriting clients have included Disney on Broadway, Wicked the Musical, Radio City Rockettes, Roundabout Theatre, NJPAC and many Broadway shows.

    She grew up in the suburbs of Rochester, New York and currently lives in Sullivan County, New York.

    You can connect with her on Instagram, Substack, LinkedIn, Bluesky and at bizzycoy@gmail.com.

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    "Help! I'm trapped in a literary hell of my own making!"