Tory Dent's first collection of poems, What Silence Equals, was published by Persea Books in 1993. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Partisan Review, The Kenyon Review, Agni, and other magazines, as well as in the anthologies Life Sentences, The Exact Change Yearbook, In the Company of My Solitude, and Things Shaped in Passing. She also writes arts criticism for magazines, including Arts, Flash Art, and Parachute.