Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of this abattoir is a college (2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (2019) as well as several chapbooks, including looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (2023). She is the William P. Rice Associate Professor in Literature at Kenyon College and a senior editor at the Kenyon Review.  www.orchidtierney.com