Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her collections include this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System 2019). She is the author of several chapbooksincluding looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023), my beatrice (Ottawa: Above/ground, 2020), ocean plastic (BlazeVOX, 2019), blue doors (Belladonna* Press, 2018), Gallipoli Diaries (Gausspdf, 2017 Brachiation (Dunedin: Gumtree Press, 2012), The World in Small Parts (Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and the full-length sound translation of Margery Kemp’s autobiography, earsay (Trollthread, 2016). Tierney is the coeditor of the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, and her scholarship has appeared in SubStance, Jacket2, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry, Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, and The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics Since 1900. She is assistant professor of English at Kenyon College.