torrin a. greathouse

torrin a. greathouse is the author of the collections DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020)—winner of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award—as well as two chapbooks, boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018) and There Is a Case that I Am (Damaged Goods, 2017).

greathouse is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, and the Poetry Foundation. In 2025, she was named a Writing Freedom Fellow. 

greathouse teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, which is the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. She served as the Guest Editor of Poem-a-Day in July and lives in Minneapolis.