Discipline: Literature – poetry

Chloe Honum

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Lubbock, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Chloe Honum's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review, among other journals. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as residencies from Djerassi and the Jack Kerouac House. Her first book, The Tulip-Flame, was published in 2014 by Cleveland State University Poetry Center and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Honum was born in Santa Monica, California, and was raised in Auckland, New Zealand.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Chloe Honum worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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