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 volunteered as a creative writing teacher for an elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama through the Desert Island Supply Company Organization (DISCO) and mentored a high school student completing a poetry portfolio. She was recently invited to serve on a panel of judges for the Breakthrough Residency sponsored by Literary Cleveland.