Chloe Honum is a Kiwi-American and 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 the Foreword Reviews Poetry Book of the Year Award and a Texas Institute of Letters Award. She is also the author of a chapbook, Then Winter (Bull City Press). Her second full-length collection, The Lantern Room, was published by 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 widely, including in The Yale Review, The Paris 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 from MacDowell, Djerassi, and the American Academy in Rome. She served as a guest poetry editor for the 2017 Pushcart Prize anthology.

Chloe has given lectures and readings for many universities, including University of Virginia, St. Joseph’s University, and Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. An Associate Professor in the English department at Baylor University, where she also directs the Beall Poetry Festival, Chloe will be a James Merrill House Fellow in 2026.