Torrey Peters is an American author. Her debut novel, Detransition, Baby, published by Penguin Random House, has received mainstream and critical success. The novel was nominated for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Peters was born near Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a professor and her mother was a lawyer. She grew up in Chicago, later attending Hampshire College. She graduated from the University of Iowa with an MFA and from Dartmouth College with an MA in Comparative Literature.

Peters’s first two self-published novellas, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, were published online in 2016 and reviewed by writer Harron Walker for them. She has written reviews for a breadth of transgender and gender non-conforming authors, such as Janet Mock, Akwaeke Emezi, and Casey Plett, who have published books through Arsenal Pulp Press, Metonymy, and Topside Press. For the past few years, Torrey has been part of a trans literary movement based on trans people sharing their work among each other without barriers.