torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. Her work is published in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. They are the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024). She teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner
Minnesota Book Awards Finalist
CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist
Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly
Bustle “Best Book of 2020”
NBC Out “Best LGBTQ Book to Gift This Holiday Season”
Book Marks “Most Anticipated Poetry Collection of Fall/Winter 2020
Lambda Literary “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Book of December 2020
Chicago Review of Books “Must-Read Book of December 2020”
Poets & Writers “A Life in Poetry: Our Sixteenth Annual Look at 2020 Debut Poets”