Elizabeth Koch (publisher)

Elizabeth Robinson Koch (born 1976) is an American publisher, writer, and entrepreneur. She has published work for One Story, Columbia Journalism Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Observer, and other publications.

Biography
Koch is the daughter of American businessman Charles Koch, the co-owner, CEO, and chairman of Koch Industries, and Liz Koch. She has a brother, Chase Koch. Koch grew up in Wichita, Kansas and is a graduate of Wichita Collegiate School. She earned a B.A. in English Literature from Princeton University and an M.F.A. in fiction from Syracuse University.

Koch was the editor of Opium Magazine. She is the cofounder of the Literary Death Match reading series, Black Balloon Publishing and publisher Catapult; the latter was founded in September 2015. She's the founder of New Balloon, a media company that co-produced the 2015 film Beasts of No Nation.

Koch founded two nonprofit organizations: 'Unlikely Collaborators', focused on self-investigation, and Tiny Blue Dot consciousness research foundation.

Personal
Koch lives in the greater Los Angeles area with her husband, Jason Kakoyiannis, an attorney who founded Bioscentric in 2013.

Koch states that she is "apolitical."

After a traumatic childhood incident led Elizabeth Koch to believe she had to be perfectly good and likable to be loved, she later underwent MDMA-assisted therapy and became a major donor to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in order to help fund and expand access to psychedelic therapies.