Whitney Koo is the author of Any Gesture (Black Lawrence Press 2026) and Founder/Executive Editor of Gasher Press. She holds a PhD in English-Creative Writing from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her creative work and literary research focus on the tradition of the elegy, particularly in the formation of the modern elegy under the influence of documentary poetics and mass violence in America. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as POETRY, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, American Literary Review, and others.

Website: www.whitneykoo.com

Visiting Assistant Professor
Creative Writing

Email: whitney.koo@ttu.edu
Office: 150B