Morning Edition Features torrin greathouse

On Morning Edition, Jeevika Verma spends time with torrin greathouse, author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), which won the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry this year. Verma writes that greathouse, who is trans and disabled, noticed that "[p]oetry is often drawn to beauty." More: 

 So as she mapped out a life at the intersection of all her identities, she began to wonder: What it would mean "to not write towards beauty as a trans woman but to write towards ugliness?"

"For trans women, beauty is a double bind," she says. So she wanted to embrace ugliness, rather than relying on the expectations of beauty.

Read on (and hear audio of greathouse speaking about their work) at Morning Edition.