Koss (she/they/them) is a mixed-race, queer poet, writer, and artist with publications in Chiron Review, Michigan Quarterly (Mixtapes), MER, Cincinnati Review (miCro), Spillway, diode poetry, Five Points, Petrichor, Moonpark Review, BULL, Beaver Mag, Sage Cigarettes, Amethyst Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, Harpy Hybrid, Variant Lit, Sugar Sugar Salt Lit, Harpy Hybrid Review, Hyacinth Review,  Anti-Heroin Chic, Red Ogre Review, San Pedro River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Roi Fainéant Press, Anvil Tongue, Bending Genres, Variant Lit, Bulb Culture Collective, Prelude Magazine, and many others. They have work forthcoming in Reckon Review, Midway Journal, and Mythic Picnic. Anthologies include Best Small Fictions 2020, Get Bent, Ovation, Beyond the Frame, The Dead of Winter III, Querencia’s Winter ’24 Anthology, Duets, Bonemilk II, Secrets in the Garden, Punk, and others. They’ve received numerous award nominations (Best of the Net and Pushcart) and won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest. Their chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect is coming from Diode Editions in '24. Find links to their work at: https://koss-works.com. Connect on Twitter @Koss51209969.