Whitney Koo is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Cry Sower, winner of the 2026 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry (University of Utah Press, 2027) and Any Gesture (Black Lawrence Press).  She holds a PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. Whitney is the founder and executive editor of Gasher Press, co-director of the digital project on rural poetics, Boor Soirée, and professor of English in the Honors College at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.