Chantelle Flores

Chantelle Flores (she/her) is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, and researcher. She studied English and art history at the University of Maine (B.A. 2026), where she served as a Writing Center Consultant, Co-Editor-in-Chief for Spire, and an Arts and Poetry Editor for The Open Field. Her creative and academic work has been published with Aisthesis, Barzakh, CALYX, and other venues. She has been awarded a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellowship (2025), a Phi Kappa Phi Pioneer Award (2025), and the Louisiana State University Fusion Editors’ Prize in Nonfiction (2024).

In 2026, she wrote and self-published Autonomous Autopsy, a poetry collection inspired by personal experiences with medical trauma and chronic and invisible illness. Much of her poetry pays homage to the documentary poetics tradition, and she enjoys exploring archival materials, artistic processes of reclamation, and the medical humanities.