Kocot was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and now resides in New Jersey, where they are the poet laureate of Pemberton Borough.
"extraordinary"[3] They have also published Poet By Default (Wave Books, 2011), a limited-edition collection of translations of the poems of Tristan Corbière.
Reviewing their 2007 collection in Jacket Magazine, critic Craig Johnson noted their "broad brushstrokes and a large intoxicated surrealistic vision.
"[6] Matthew Paul, reviewing their 2018 chapbook, stressed the visual aspects of their surrealistic approach to writing: they "can cast an intriguingly surreal spell through compelling imagery.
[7] Their work has been written about in several books, including, Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought by Paul Magee (Rowman and Littlefield; London and New York, 2022).