Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) as well as several chapbooks, including pedagogies for the planthroposcene (above/ground press, 2025) and looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023). She teaches at Kenyon College and is a senior editor at the Kenyon Review.
