Koss (she/they/them) is a mixed-race, queer poet, writer, and artist…
Originally published in The Amethyst Review
we embrace in the gold space between hello and so long
as holy whelks wield timeless spirals
becoming Godded bottlehead
Koss (she/they/them) is a mixed-race, queer poet, writer, and artist with publications in Chiron Review, Cincinnati Review (miCro), Spillway, diode poetry, Five Points, Petrichor, Beaver Mag, Sage Cigarettes, Spoon River Poetry Review, Action, Spectacle, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, San Pedro River Review, Bending Genres, Permafrost, Bulb Culture Collective, Prelude Magazine, and many others. They have work forthcoming in Hyacinth Review, Reckon Review, Sugar Sugar Salt Lit, Midway Journal, Anvil Tongue, and the anthology, Ovation. Other anthologies include Dead of Winter III, Querencia’s Winter ’24 Anthology, Secrets in the Garden Anthology, Best Small Fictions 2020, Get Bent, Beyond the Frame. They’ve received numerous award nominations and won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest. Watch for their new chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, coming from Diode Editions in '24. Find links to their work at: https://koss-works.com. Connect on Twitter @Koss51209969.