The 2026-27 Koch Memorial Editors: Tacey M. Atsitty and Adam O’Fallon Price

The Koch Memorial Editor in poetry for the 2026-27 academic year is Tacey M. Atsitty. Dr. Atsitty, Diné (Navajo), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle People), and is a recipient of the Wisconsin Brittingham Prize for Poetry and other prizes. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY; EPOCH; Kenyon Review Online; Prairie Schooner; When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry;Leavings, and other publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018), and her second book is (At) Wrist (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). She is a member of the Advisory Council for BYU’s Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and a board member for Lightscatter Press. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and baby boy.

The Koch fiction editor is Adam O'Fallon Price. He is the author of two novels, The Grand Tour (Doubleday 2016) and The Hotel Neversink (Tin House Books 2019), winner of the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Gis first collection of short stories, Objects of Desire (Autumn House Press) is forthcoming October 2026. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, VICE, the Kenyon Review, the Iowa Review, EPOCH, and many other places. He lives in Carrboro, NC and teaches fiction writing at the University of North Carolina.