Chloe Honum was born in Santa Monica, California, and was raised in Auckland, New Zealand. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and were included in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010. Her first collection, The Tulip-Flame, was a finalist for the 2012 Yale Younger Poets Prize. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, an Isabella Gardner Residency Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. During the summer of 2012, Chloe served as the writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House in Orlando. She is currently a Ph.D. student in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University, where she is the Helen Devitt Jones Fellow.