From Viva Under Attack
Orchid Tierney is an Aotearoa-New Zealand writer, currently living in Gambier, Ohio,
where she teaches at Kenyon College. She is the author of a year of
misreading the wildcats (Operating System, 2019) and Earsay
(TrollThread 2016), and chapbooks ocean plastic (BlazeVOX 2019), blue
doors (Belladonna* Press), Gallipoli Diaries (GaussPDF 2017), the
world in small parts (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), and Brachiaction
(Gumtree, 2012). Other poems, reviews, and scholarship have appeared in Jacket2,
Journal of Modern Literature, and Western Humanities Review,
among others. She is currently writing a monograph on waste management and
poetry.
