Chloe Honum was raised in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her debut collection, The Tulip-Flame, was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, named a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and won Foreword Reviews Poetry Book of the Year Award. She is also the author of a chapbook, Then Winter (Bull City Press), and a second full-length collection, The Lantern Room (Tupelo Press). Poems from The Lantern Room were named a finalist for the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Chloe’s poems and essays have appeared in journals including The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and Poetry. Her honors include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Sargeson Fellowship for New Zealand Writers, and a Pushcart Prize, as well as residencies at MacDowell, Djerassi, and the American Academy in Rome.

Currently, Chloe is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Baylor University, where she also directs the Beall Poetry Festival. She has presented her work widely, including for the University of Virginia, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and the Auckland Writers Festival. In 2026, she will be a James Merrill House Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, and will also return to MacDowell.