Marlo Koch (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based writer currently serving as the Managing Editor of Chicago Artists Writers (CAW) as well as the Book Donation Coordinator at Open Books. Koch holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her poetry has been published by Peach Mag, Sobotka Literary Magazine, Hole Black Hole Catalog, Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, among others, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has held solo and two-person projects at C33 Gallery, Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery, The Overlook Place, Gallery 400, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Iceberg Projects, Western Pole, and North Pole Exhibitions. In February 2019 she was a writer-in-residence at the Wassaic Project in Upstate New York.