Theodora Ward was born in Ohio and grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. After attending public high school, she went to Deep Springs College, a small junior work college in central California, then transferred to Brown University, where she majored in English, writing an honors thesis on Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson.

After graduating, she stayed in Providence, Rhode Island. She played drums in touring and recording bands, and worked as a teacher, tutor, and delivery driver. When the pandemic began, she moved back in with her parents and younger sister in Hendersonville, NC, south of Asheville.

She matriculated at Harvard Divinity School in 2020. During the summer of 2022, she went to the Clarion Writers Workshop in San Diego; she graduated from HDS in January 2023 with a master’s in theological studies. Afterwards, once again at her parents’ house, she did online gig work as a data worker, disciplining LLM-based chatbots into sycophantic compliance. Mercifully, she was admitted to the North Carolina State University fiction MFA program in 2024; she graduated in 2026.

She is currently employed as the communications director of the “Genuine Intelligence Project,” an anti-AI initiative sponsored and run by the North Carolina branch of the American Association of University Professors.

This website contains her personal writings and the blog posts associated with "Corridors of Time," a newsletter she started in late 2021. Her writings for the Genuine Intelligence Project can be found here.