Originally from New Mexico, Chloe Joan Lopez briefly studied physics at Harvard University before earning an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.

She was the winner of the 2009 Red Hen Press Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2006-2007 Writing Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the 2010 Andres Montoya First Book Prize, and was recognized in 2006 by the Artist's Grant program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Her poetry has appeared in Mississippi Review, Los Angeles Review, can we have our ball back?, Spoon River Poetry Review, St. Petersburg Review, and other journals, and a chapbook, Quodlibet, is now available from New Michigan Press.

She lives in Vermont.