Chelsea Hogue is a writer from Mississippi. She is the author of the chapbook Ethel (Keith LLC 2020). Her work has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Sleepingfish, The White Review, Quarterly West, Juked, Black Sun Lit, Tinge, The New Inquiry, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Full Stop, and elsewhere.

In 2017, she graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was the recipient of the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in fiction. In 2017, her research about a labor program in the Maine State Prison was featured in an exhibition at Hampshire College, Made in America: Unfree Labor in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Chelsea is the recipient of a fellowship to the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and was a Teaching Associate at the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.  

She has worked for McSweeney’s Publishing and has taught composition and creative writing at the Upward Bound Summer Academy at Northfield Mount Hermon School, Drexel University, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She hosted Punch Party and PP Party reading series. She is a co-founder of Touchless Press with the musician and artist Bill Nace.