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Wigleaf Top 50, 2025

June 29, 2025 ·

Wigleaf Top 50 promo with Ran OFF with the Star Bassoon text and references to finalists in purple, black, red and white

I’m very pleased to have a piece selected for the longlist for the 2025 Wigleaf Top 50. The Wigleaf Top 50 is an annual digital anthology of hand selected short fiction work published online. The 2025 selections are based on the year 2024. This year is the last year Shome Dasgupta will be running the series. The website shows the following editors, but I’m not sure this is current:

  • Sudha Balagopal is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
  • Ruth Joffre is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
  • Alice Maglio is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
  • Colleen Rothman is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
  • Our Readers for the Top 50 are Sacha Bissonnette, Vincent Chavez, Casey Hannan, LaToya Jordan, Alexandria Juarez, Sean Lovelace, Jenée Skinner, Kate Tooley, Anne Weisgerber, and Erica L. Williams.

Gerardo Sámano Córdova was, in fact, the selecting editor this year!

I admire Shome and the staff for all the time they’ve generously donated to the series for years now, and it’s nice of Wigleaf to host it. For those who don’t know the process, there is not a nomination process, so the editors just monitor publications throughout the year, compiling a longlist and winner list. It’s a huge, undertaking.

For writers hoping to be included, or writers who hope for nominations for other awards like Pushcart and Best of the Net, I recommend staying visible, which gets harder and harder on social and compiling a publication list each year (for all nominations also) and promoting it before deadlines arise.

My piece was published in Rogan Kelly’s Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, one of two literary ‘zines he helms (he also created The Night Heron Barks). Both are innovative zines featuring an eclectic array of writing.

My piece was a short one about my ass. It also received a Pushcart nomination, which I’m grateful for. While it didn’t win, the nominations are the win… Here’s a link, if you’d like to read it.

Wigleaf doesn’t have links to specific pages as they seem to be posting content in frames, but, for now, you can find the Wigleaf Top 50 winners and longlist at the top of their webpage here.

Hannah Greico Interviews Koss in Chiron Review 136, Spring, 2025

March 27, 2025 ·

I’m so very honored to have this interview by Hanna Greico about Dancing Backwards (from Diode Editions) in the latest issue of one of my all-time favorite literary zines, Chiron Review! We discuss process, privacy issues, form and more!

Thank you, Hannah, Michael Hathaway, and all the editors for publishing it and for this fabulous issue. I see lots of familiar folks in here and look forward to reading it! I will update with a link when it becomes available for purchase on their website, but it will appear here, where you can also pick up a very affordable subscription and support the magazine!

collage with text from an author interview and the cover of Chiron Review 136 (Spring) showing a drawing of two people kissing. Multi colors throughout.
Chiron Review 136, Spring, 2025

The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025

March 27, 2025 ·

It’s very pleased to have art in The Pinch Journal, a journal I really admire. Very grateful to Editor-in-Chief, Courtney Miller Santo, Managing Editor, Joshua Carlucci, Art Editor, Isaiah Kennedy and the rest of the staff for putting together such a lovely issue (and for including me). There is lots of great art, poetry, and writing in here–it’s really a stellar lineup, so be sure to check it out (I’ve included screenshots of the TOC so you can see the contributor list). It isn’t yet on their website as of 3/27, but I’m sure they’ll have it listed soon! Here is a link to The Pinch print page.

Photo of print journal drawing reproduction of androgynous women in black dancing in a field with a tornado in the background.
Koss drawing of woman and tornado in The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025 magazine cover with abstract, painterly hand, whale head, and wave and ship motifs.
Cover art The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
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Table of contents page 2 The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025

Book Review Dancing Backwards Toward Pluperfect | Carla Sarett | Trampoline Poetry

March 16, 2025 ·

Carla Sarett wrote a beautiful book review of Dancing Backwards and Trampoline Poetry published it. It is a very thorough and generous review—I’m sure you will enjoy it. Note that their reviews seems to be loaded on one page, one after the other, so if you arrive on my page in the far future, you will need to scroll down, or, faster, just type “dancing backwards” after hitting control F on a keyboard for PCs and it should take you to the review. Very grateful to both Carla and Trampoline for this.

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Image courtesy of Diode Editions.

Review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by Erin Vachon

February 26, 2025 ·

Very pleased and honored by this very queer book review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by Erin Vachon and published in Moist Poetry. Aside from the flattering recommendation, it’s nice to see my work resonating with other queers. And I agree that we need queer poetry right now more than ever as our basic civil rights are being dismantled by this evil regime. I’m also grateful to Han Vanderhart for publishing it in their queer poetry journal, Moist Poetry.

Interview (RE) An Ideas Journal, Kristine Esser Slentz

February 20, 2025 ·

Very grateful for this interview in (Re) An Ideas Journal, today. Thank you, Kristine Esser Slentz for your time and thoughtfulness in this interview. And thank you, Felice Neals and H.E. Fisher (editors) for the publication. So honored! We talk about grief, healing, trauma, religion, and writing queer and working class. Be sure to read the whole issue as it has great poetry, art, and other creative goodness!

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