Chloe Honum is a Kiwi-American dual citizen 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 this collection 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 MacDowell Residency, and a Pushcart Prize, and she served as a guest poetry editor for the 2017 Pushcart Prize anthology. In 2019, she was awarded a Sargeson Fellowship for New Zealand writers, and in 2024-2025, she was a resident in the Visiting Artists and Scholars program at the American Academy in Rome.

Chloe has given lectures and readings for the 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 was recently awarded a 2026 James Merrill House Fellowship.