torri blue is an autistic poet, writer, editor, and lyricist, an amateur gardener and budding ecologist, a late bloomer, and a queer mother. she has an affinity for multimodal collaboration, and her words have been set for choirs and folk songs and short films. as a poet-scholar, torri’s focus is on Autistic Poetics—the intersection of autistic and poetic embodiment—and the possibilities hidden within autistic poetry to (help) transform our collective ecological ethic. her peer-reviewed series of essays on Autistic Poetics and Mary Oliver’s poems was recently published in Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture. she is working on her debut novel, a hybrid work on the queer, feral ways we attempt to cope with a world altered by loss.

torri holds her Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Studies with a focus in poetic ethics from Grand Valley State University. she is currently seeking her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and lives in Ontario with her wife, Alex, and her son, Auden. she has no idea how to write a bio and hopes this one turned out okay.