Orchid Tierney

From all our names are kin: a field guide to future flora

Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) and seven chapbooks, including looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, forthcoming), my beatrice (above/ground press, 2020) and ocean plastic (BlazeVOX Books, 2019). Her scholarship, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Jacket2, Venti, Fractured Ecologies, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Y22 Individual Artist Excellence Award and a Black Earth Institute Fellow for 2022-25. Her research focuses on waste, waste management, and atmospheric pollution in contemporary poetry. She is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College and a senior editor at the Kenyon Review. www.orchidtierney.com.

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