Francis CoCo is the pen name for Penni Goode Evans. Penni Goode Evans is an artist and a writer originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2002 she and her family moved to a small town in the Midwest, population 2,634 and while there she taught herself to paint. While she is back in the South now and appreciates it for the things the Midwest did not have, like pimento cheese and sweet tea, she does miss terribly those heavy snows and northern lights.