KT Herr (they/she) is a queer writer, musician, educator, and curious person from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They hold a BA in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where they were selected to receive the Thomas Lux Award.

KT has worked as a coordinator for the Sarah Lawrence Right-to-Write Program, as co-director of the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, and as an editorial intern with Black Lawrence Press. They have taught classes and community workshops with Milk Press, the Marin Poetry Center, and the West Tisbury Public Library. KT is a former poetry editor at The 3288 Review and Gulf Coast Journal.

KT’s poems have been selected as finalists in the Grist Pro Forma Contest, the Frontier OPEN Prize, and the Palette Poetry Spotlight Award; as semifinalist for the 92Y Discovery Contest; and as winner of the Sweet Poetry Contest and, most recently, the American Literary Review Award in Poetry. Additionally, their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Foglifter, The Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. KT has received creative support from Inprint Houston, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Great Lakes Experimental Arts.

At present, KT serves on the board of Four Way Books while studying as an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor PhD Fellow in Critical Poetics at the University of Houston, where they also work as Graduate Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program.