A poet, editor, teacher, and fiction writer, Arah Ko is the author of BRINE ORCHID (YesYes Books 2025) and ANIMAL LOGIC(Bull City Press 2026) and has work appears in The American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, Colorado Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She is a multi-time nominee for Best of Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Her fiction is in the Eastover Anthology of Rural Writers of Color 2024. She was awarded an Academy of American Poets Arthur Rense Prize, a Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry, and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize.