Chloe Honum

Chloe Honum was born in Santa Monica, California, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of THE TULIP-FLAME (Cleveland State University Press, 2014), selected by Tracy K. Smith for the 2013 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. THE TULIP-FLAME won Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Best First Book of Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and was named a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Honum is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Pushcart Prize, as well as residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, and the Kerouac House of Orlando. Her poems appear in such journals as The Paris Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Orion, and have been anthologized in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and The Southern Poetry Anthology. Honum holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. She is currently a PhD candidate at Texas Tech University.