torrin a. greathouse

torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist from Southern California. greathouse’s debut collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), is the winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. They are also the author of the chapbooks Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm (Damaged Goods Press, 2017), and boy/girl/ghost (The Atlas Review, 2018). Their work has appeared in Poetry magazine, The New York Times, the Kenyon Review, Foglifter, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, among other outlets.

Greathouse was a finalist for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Other honors and awards include being a 2021 NEA Literature Fellow, a Minnesota Book Awards finalist, and a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist. 

greathouse is an assistant editor of the Shallow Ends. They have an MFA from the University of Minnesota and teach at Pacific Lutheran University.