bio

torri blue is an autistic poet, writer, and lyricist, an amateur gardener and budding ecologist, a late bloomer, a queer mother. she writes about the earth, our earth-bodies, mortality and birds and contentment. she has an affinity for multimodal collaboration, and her words have been set for choirs and folk songs and short films.

torri started writing poetry in her early twenties as a way to put personal grief to words. as she began sharing her poems online, however, this became something more communal. for ten years, she wrote custom poems and sent prints of her handwritten poetry to readers all over the world.

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.

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. she 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.