Caroline Chavatel is a teacher, poet, and editor. She is the author of Consume Her (forthcoming), winner of the 2024 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry, and White Noises (Greentower Press, 2019), winner of The Laurel Review’s 2018 Midwest Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Missouri Review, AGNI, Sixth Finch, Smartish Pace, and Poetry Northwest, and she has won prizes from Blue Earth Review and The Cossack Review. She received a B.A. from Salisbury University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from New Mexico State University, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Georgia State University. She is a co-founding editor of The Shore and currently teaches First Year Seminar and Poetry Workshop at Bard High School Early College in Baltimore, MD.