KT Herr is a queer poet, collagist, educator, and curious person from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

KT holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where they were awarded the Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship and the 2025-26 Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where they were selected to receive the 2019 Thomas Lux Award.

KT has taught classes and community workshops with Milk Press, the Marin Poetry Center, Boldface Conference, and Inprint Houston, and has visited creative writing classrooms at SUNY Stony Brook, UT Knoxville, and the University of Houston. KT is a former poetry editor at Gulf Coast Journal and The 3288 Review, and served as graduate coordinator for the University of Houston Creative Writing Program 2022-25.

KT’s poems have been selected as finalists for Best of the Net, The Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholarship, 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 the American Literary Review Award in Poetry. KT’s poem “Gender study; gestalt” won second place in the 2025 SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and was also selected to receive a 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Award from fifth wheel press, appearing in the inaugural anthology. Additionally, KT’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, Foglifter, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere.

The grateful beneficiary of creative support from numerous institutions including Inprint Houston, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, KT is a board member with Four Way Books and lives in Houston with their family.