KC Trommer
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KC Trommer is the author of the chapbook The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl press, 2014). A graduate of the MFA program at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, KC has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poem "Fear Not, Mary" won the 2015 Fugue Poetry Prize. She has been awarded fellowships from the Table 4 Writers Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Prague Summer Program. Her poems have appeared in Agni, The Antioch Review, Day One, Octopus, The Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East and a number of other journals. He recent work has appeared in the anthologies Resist Much, Obey Little and Bared. Hear poems here.

KC studied collage and painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, School for Visual Arts, and Parsons. Her collage work has been featured in group and solo shows in Ann Arbor and New York City. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens with her son.

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KC Trommer is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019), winner of the Diode Editions Book Prize, and Paragones, an ekphrastic collection in conversation with the work and lives of women artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Ana Mendieta, and Edmonia Lewis. A Spanish-language edition of We Call Them Beautiful, translated by Chilean poet Elisa Montesinos, is forthcoming from Cuarto Propio.

Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Georgia Review, AGNI, The Common, CRAFT Literary, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a CRAFT Literary Editor's Prize, and a Fugue Poetry Prize selected by Kevin Prufer, and has received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center, the Onassis Foundation USA, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others.

Trommer is the founder of collaborative public poetry project QUEENSBOUND, now in its fourth edition, and curated and ran the Red Door Series at St. Mark's Church in Jackson Heights, a poetry and meditation series that welcomed over seventy-five poets from across Queens and the world. Since 2016, she has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein; their work together includes "Three Rides," a song cycle for soprano, cello, and piano featured on Garfein's 2023 album The Layers.

She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has taught writing for NYU Gallatin, Poets House, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. She is Director of Marketing and Community Engagement at Flushing Town Hall, a multicultural arts nonprofit located in a historic landmark in Queens, New York, where she lives with her son.