Chloe Honum was raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of THEN WINTER (Bull City Press) and THE TULIP-FLAME, selected by Tracy K. Smith for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. THE TULIP-FLAME was named a finalist for the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award, and won the 2014 Foreword Book of the Year Award and a Texas Institute of Letters Award. Chloe's poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Paris Review, Orion, and elsewhere, and she has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She is an assistant professor of English at Baylor University.