Chelsea Hodson is the author of the 2018 essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else and the chapbook Pity the Animal. Her essays and poetry have been published in Vogue, Hobart, Black Warrior Review, The Lifted Brow, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Bennington College, and was a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. She teaches at Catapult in New York and Mors Tua Vita Mea Workshop in Rome.
While in residence, Chelsea wrote 20,000 words of a new novel that she started on her first day. She also wrote songs on the piano and guitar.