KC Trommer

KC Trommer is a poet and cultural worker in New York City. Her books include We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) and The Hasp Tongue (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). A finalist for the role of Queens Poet Laureate, KC is the founder and curator of QUEENSBOUND, an ongoing public poetry series on the 7 train (queensbound.com). Throughout her career she has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Diode Editions Book Prize, a Fugue Poetry Prize, as well as grants and fellowships from City Artist Corps, the New York Foundation for the Arts, NYPL’s Cullman Center, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, amongst others.

KC has taught courses in creative writing at the University of Michigan, NYU, Bard, and Poets House. 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.

KC Trommer will be in residence during the month of August 2025.