Caroline Kern, aka, Caroline Paquita (born 1980, Miami, FL) is an multidisciplinary artist with Long-Covid that is currently living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. After fifteen years of self-publishing zines, in 2011 she formally founded Pegacorn Press which is a feminist, queer, total-art-freaker publishing adventure. The press has released over thirty titles and print editions, most of which are collaborations with fellow artists, which is a core part of her ongoing community engagement practice. Caroline is a co-director of the newly created Pittsburgh Art Book Fair and is an active member of the international art book community through speaking engagements and exhibiting at art book fairs. Her work has been collected and shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and her publications are in the special collections libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, NY Public Library, Harvard University, and many other institutions. Her personal practice centers on illustration, printmaking, creating publications, video, and performance. When she is not in the studio, she spends her time beekeeping, fermenting foods, and navigating the medical industrial complex due to her ongoing health complications with Long-Covid.