Dr. Chloe Honum

Interests

Creative Writing: Poetry 
Contemporary Poetry 
Creative Nonfiction 
Poetry of Grief and Elegy 
Literature of Aotearoa New Zealand

Education

Ph.D. Texas Tech University
M.F.A. University of Arkansas
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College

Courses Taught

• CW 3300: Creative Writing: Poetry
• CW 4300: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
• CW 4306: Poetry of Grief & Elegy
• ENG 4389: Postmodern American Poetry
• ENG 3378: Campus Lit
• ENG 4360: Radio Lit
• ENG 2310: American Literary Cultures
• ENG 4374: Writers of Aotearoa New Zealand

Bio

Chloe Honum specializes in poetry and creative writing. She is the author of The Tulip-Flame, which 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 a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award and a Texas Institute of Letters Award. She is also the author of a chapbook, Then Winter, and a second full-length collection, The Lantern Room. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and The Southern Review, among other journals, and she served as a guest poetry editor for the 2017 Pushcart Prize anthology. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a Sargeson Fellowship. A Kiwi-American, she was raised in Auckland, New Zealand.