KC Trommer (she/her) is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) and The Hasp Tongue (dgp, 2014). In 2018, she founded QUEENSBOUND, an ongoing public poetry series on the 7 train. Since 2018, KC has collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein on a song cycle based on poems from her first collection, three of which were included in Garfein’s 2023 classical music release The Layers. She holds a BA in English from the University of Georgia and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her son. More at kctrommer.com. (updated 05/2025)