poet, essayist,
editor, educator
torrin a. greathouse (she/they) is an award-winning transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, and The Ragdale Foundation. She is the author of two collections, DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), winner of a 2025 Stonewall Book Award, and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
  • American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Prize in Poetry
  • Poets & Writers “Ten Questions” Feature
  • “Mythology, Etymology, and the Hard Work of Living” Interview in The Rumpus
  • Autostraddle “The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2024”
  • Reviewed in VerseCurious
  • Reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly
  • Reviewed in The Library Journal
  • 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”