Chloe Martinez (Of Mandalas, Bad Poets, and Claiming Identity)

Read: "Mandala of the Soapy Water," that Chloe reads on the episode

Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. 

Purchase: Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021)