Menu Menu Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of this abattoir is a college and a year of misreading the wildcats, as well as several chapbooks, including looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading. She teaches at Kenyon College and is a senior editor at The Kenyon Review. Tierney gratefully acknowledges Yutan Getzler, Jennifer Galvão, and the science and nature writing learning community at Kenyon for their feedback on an early draft of her essay.
