Chelsea Kerwin is a writer and poet living in Baltimore, MD. She studied English and Creative Writing at George Washington University, where she was a Lannan Fellow and won the A.E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry Prize in 2010.

She earned an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she was awarded two consecutive Devine Fellowships, served as an Assistant Editor on the Mid-American Review, and delivered a presentation on the use of metaphor at the Winter Wheat Conference in 2015.

She has served as a volunteer creative writing teacher through the Desert Island Supply Company Organization (DISCO) in Birmingham, Alabama, mentored high school students completing a poetry portfolio, and has been invited to judge Breakthrough Residency submissions for Literary Cleveland.