Chelsea Harlan holds a BA in literature and visual art from Bennington College, as well as an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Rose Goldstein Scholar. Her debut full-length collection, Bright Shade (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2022 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize.