Chloë Lawrence (she/her) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Montclair State University in 2023. In 2025, she graduated from American University with an MFA in Creative Writing focusing on Fiction, where she received the Myra Sklarew Award for Remarkable Originality in Prose for her thesis. Her writing is published in Eunoia Review and The Rising Phoenix Review. She is excited to join the PEN/Faulkner team and looks forward to teaching fiction in DC schools. She enjoys writing, reading, and spending time with her family.