torrin a. greathouse
torrin a. greathouse (she/they) is a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist from Central California. greathouse’s debut collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), won 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). Her 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 Minnesota Book Awards finalist and a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, Zoeglossia, the Ragdale Foundation, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
greathouse earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.
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