photo by Colleen Trainor
February 2024
Hudson, NY

CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of four books: the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person, the critically  acclaimed novella, Women, Legs Get Led Astray, and The Red Zone: A Love Story.  Chloe’s next book, TRYING, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2025. Her novella Women will be reissued by Harper Perennial on June 4th, 2024. 

Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, New York Magazine’s The Cut, The Strategist, Romper, Buzzfeed, Longreads, Vice, Nylon, Salon, Medium, The Rumpus, Hobart, The Sun, Men’s Health, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, and the forthcoming, Sluts. Her essay “Hungry Ghost” was listed as Notable in Best American Non-Required Reading.

Chloé lives in Hudson, New York. She is represented by Rebecca Gradinger of United Talent Agency. She never went to college, doesn’t have an MFA, and  sold all of her books without an agent. She is the co-founder of Scrappy Literary where she runs writing retreats and offers personalized support for writers.

IG: @chloeeeecaldwell