Gracie Caggiano (b. 1999) is a poet-composer, producer, mezzo-soprano, and acoustic guitarist currently based in Kansas City. In May 2023, she earned a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she studied with Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Yotam Haber, and Paul Rudy. In 2021, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Stetson University (Deland, FL) where she studied with Manuel de Murga (composition) and Karen Coker Merritt (voice). During her Junior year of study, she was named the 2020 Presser Undergraduate Scholar at Stetson University.

In contemplation of complex emotions and other profoundly human experiences, Caggiano crafts poetic spaces with various tonalities, textures, and media. In current work, she also explores the significance of disability and decay in her own lived experience. Caggiano embraces both her popular music background and classical training, often cross-pollinating concert works and alternative-folk songs by translating stylistic elements between the two bodies. Recent digital releases from November 2023 ("To Love Is to Be Honest" and "Don't Look at Me That Way") explore such intersections of classical, folk, and pop, featuring musicians from diverse musical backgrounds.

 As an eclectic musician, she engages in and has been recognized for a variety of projects, including concert music, film scores, and stage works. In 2019, Caggiano placed third runner-up in ACDA’s Raymond W. Brock Competition for Student Composers for her SATB choral work The sun kept setting… (2019). In spring 2022 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, she was selected for a composition residency with the UMKC Graduate Fellowship String Quartet, during which she composed Samara. In June 2023, Caggiano's micro-opera Becoming was performed by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City for No Diivide KC's "Come As You Are" event. In-progress projects include a 7-song album of genre-fluid songs, I can't be anythng but human, and a short-film score for Little Dove by Central Florida-based indie director, Chris Shick.