Tori Reynolds is poet with recent and forthcoming publications in the North Carolina Literary Review, Prime Number Magazine, SWWIM Every Day, Cold Mountain Review, Cave Wall, The Southwest Review, and the Greensboro Review, among others. Her poems have been finalists for the James Applewhite Prize, the Randall Jarrell Prize, the Writer’s South Award and the Nazim Hikmet Prize. She’s a graduate of the Bennington Writer’s Seminars MFA Program. 

She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duke University and cares deeply about her professional work as a trauma psychologist.  She evaluates and testifies in court about the impacts of trauma in the lives of men and women on death row. She works with trauma-exposed journalists, military veterans and people haunted by the un-nameable.

She takes her lessons from the owl and is not afraid to see in the dark.