About

CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of the national bestseller, Women (Harper Perennial, 2024) which The Atlantic called a “frenetic cult classic.” Her new memoir Trying, is now out from Graywolf Press, which The Brooklyn Rail called “Caldwell’s most condensed, structured, and technically interesting book” and The Washington Post wrote “Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature.” She is also the author of the books I’ll Tell You In Person (2016), The Red Zone (2022), and Legs Get Led Astray (2012). She is currently working on a novel.

Chloé’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, MSNBC, The Cut, The Believer, The Strategist, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Vice, Longreads, Nylon, The Rumpus, The Sun, 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, Sluts, and So Heavy A Weight.

She has been on faculty at Writing Workshops Paris, Writing Workshops Iceland, Chautauqua Institute, Fine Arts Work Center, Write or Die Tribe, Catapult, Litreactor, Gotham Writer’s Workshop, and Corporeal Writing.

Chloé is represented by Rebecca Gradinger and Laurie-Maude Chenard of United Talent Agency. She is the co-founder of Scrappy Literary where she runs writing retreats and offers personalized support for writers. She lives in Hudson, NY.

Literary agents: rebecca.gradinger@unitedtalent.com and laurie-maude.chenard@unitedtalent.com

IG: @chloeeeecaldwell