Biography
torrin a. greathouse (she/they) is a poet and essayist. greathouse was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in California’s Central Valley. Through her writing she explores the intersections of transness, disability, intergenerational trauma, and desire. Their work is particularly interested in how these experiences are impacted and shaped by various systems of legal, medical, and carceral power. Her work is also deeply concerned with linguistic history, examining how language shapes thought and can be made to obscure or erase the violent histories from which it emerges.
greathouse is the author of two collections, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and DEED (Wesleyan University Press), a 2025 Stonewall Book Award recipient. Their writing has been published in Poetry, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review, and New York Times Magazine. greathouse has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is a low-residency faculty member at Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop, and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
