Ahrend Torrey is the author of This Moment (Pinyon Publishing, 2024); If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant: The Jane Kenyon Erasure Poems (Pinyon Publishing, 2024); For What Are The Blossoms Reaching? (Limited Artist’s Edition, American Academy of Bookbinding, 2023); Ripples (Pinyon Publishing, 2023); Bird City, American Eye (Pinyon Publishing, 2022); and Small Blue Harbor (The Poetry Box “Select,” 2019). His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly; North Dakota Quarterly; Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature; storySouth; The Greensboro Review; The Perch (a journal of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, a program of the Yale School of Medicine); The Westchester Review; Welter; and West Trade Review, among others. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and is a recipient of the Etruscan Prize awarded by Etruscan Press. He lives in Chicago with his husband, Jonathan; their two rat terriers, Dichter and Dova; and Purl, their cat.