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. They have around 275 poetry, flash, visual poetry, photography, and art publications in or forthcoming from journals including Spillway, Michigan Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley, Five Points, Action, Spectacle, diode poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The San Pedro River Review, The Lumiere Review, 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 Bending Genres Get Bent, Kissing Dynamite’s Punk, diode’s Beyond the Frame, Red Ogre Review’s first anthology, Gut Slut Press’s Bone Milk II, Milk and Cake’s Winter III, Querencia Press’s Winter ’24, Five Wheel Press’s Secrets in the Garden, and Best Small Fiction 2020. Find links on the publications page.
Koss has had many BoTN and a couple of Pushcart nominations since 2020 in multigenres: poetry, fiction, CNF, art, and photography. See their ’23 BoTN page for details from this year’s nominations.
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. And if you need an author site, feel free to send them a message (they have a degree in web design). See their web services page for more details.