About Koss
Koss (she, them, they) is a queer, mixed-race poet, writer, artist, and asemic writer with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their debut chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect is due out from Diode Editions in ’24. Their poetry, flash, visual poetry, and photography has been published widely in journals including Spillway, Michigan Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley, Five Points, Action, Spectacle, diode poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The San Pedro River Review, Sage Cigarettes, Beaver Mag, Petrichor, The Lumiere Review, Lunch Ticket, Kissing Dynamite, Prelude, Schuylkill Valley, Mom Egg Review, Variant Lit, MoonPark Review, Chiron Review, Red Ogre Review, Bull, Harpy Hybrid, Amethyst Review, Schuylkill Valley, Rogue Agent, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Flash Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Spoon River Review, Rogue Agent, and many other journals (see recent publications here). Anthologies include Get Bent, Punk, Beyond the Frame, Bone Milk II, Dead of Winter III, Secrets in the Garden, Best Small Fiction 2020, Ovation, Fallen (forthcoming), and Thin Places and Sacred Spaces (forthcoming). Find links on the publications page.
Koss was longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 in ’24 and received many BoTN and a couple of Pushcart nominations in multiple genres: poetry, fiction, CNF, art, and photography. See their ’23 BoTN page for details from this year’s nominations. They won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry award with “My Therapist Sez,” first published in diode poetry.
Koss also does content strategy, content creation and curation, and organic marketing for money. They’re available for consultations for websites, SEO (search engine optimization), graphic design, book covers, and art feedback/portfolio consultations. In addition to professional experience and education, they have taught drawing, design, graphics, and typography at the college level. If you need an author, ‘zine, or press site, feel free to send them a message (they have a degree in web design). See their web services page for more details.