Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She grew up in New Bedford, MA and attended Barnard College, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow. She did her graduate work at UC Santa Barbara, Boston University, and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Holden Scholar. Her scholarly articles appear in South Asia and The Medieval History Journal and she is at work on a monograph about religion and autobiography in pre-modern-to-modern South Asia. Her poetry has been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications, including Waxwing, The Common, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah.