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 was released in October, ’24 from Diode Editions. Their poetry, flash, visual poetry, and photography has been published widely in journals including Spillway, Michigan Quarterly (Mixtapes), Schuylkill Valley, Five Points, Action, Spectacle, diode poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The San Pedro River Review, Midway Journal, Sage Cigarettes, Beaver Mag, Petrichor, Outlook Springs, Lunch Ticket, Prelude Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Variant Lit, MoonPark Review, Chiron Review, Red Ogre Review, Harpy Hybrid, Amethyst Review, Rogue Agent, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Flash Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Spoon River Review, Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, Permafrost, 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, Querencia’s Winter ’24 Anthology, Best Small Fiction 2020, Fifth Wheel Press’s ’24 Anthology, and Thin Places and Sacred Spaces. They were also a recipient of a 2024 Granta Bursary for memoir writing.
Koss’s MoonPark publication, “The Short Lives of Wombats” was longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 in ’24 and asemic work, “Love Song for Queers Who Suicided,” published in Sage Cigarettes, was a finalist for ’24 BoTN. Over the last several years, they received many BoTN and a couple of Pushcart nominations in multiple genres: poetry, fiction, CNF, art, and photography. The latest was a Pushcart nomination from Ran Off With the Star Bassoon and a 2025 Best Small Fictions nomination from Midway Journal for a flash fiction piece. See their ’24 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 web design, content strategy, copy writing, 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.