ABOUT CHLOE MARTINEZChloe Martinez is a poet, a translator, and a scholar of South Asian religions.
She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow; the MA/PhD program in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara; Boston University’s Creative Writing MA; and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Holden Scholar. Her books are Blue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai (as translator; forthcoming October 2026 from New Directions), Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD (as co-editor, with Lisa Van Orman Hadley; University of Chicago Press, 2026); Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021) and Corner Shrine (Backbone Press, 2020). Her research has appeared in journals including The Medieval History Journal, South Asia, and The Journal of Vaishnava Studies and has been funded by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, AIIS, and SSRC-Mellon Mays. Her poems, translations, reviews and essays appear in Ploughshares, POETRY, Agni, American Poetry Review, Best Literary Translations 2026, Sierra Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2026 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in translation, as well as residencies from Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, and SWWIM. She is assistant editor for Beloit Poetry Journal and poetry editor for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. She works at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Claremont, CA with her husband and two daughters. Short bio: Chloe Martinez is the translator of Blue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai (New Directions, October 2026); coeditor of Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD (UChicago, 2026); and author of the poetry collection Ten Thousand Selves and the chapbook Corner Shrine. A recipient of the 2026 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in translation, she is assistant editor at Beloit Poetry Journal and works at Claremont McKenna College. |
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