Chloe McMurray

Chloe McMurray is a junior at Union College studying English, Sociology, and Writing. She won the Rushton Writing Competition for Poetry in 2017. Her works have been featured in the Grassroots Women Projects: The Notebook, SKCTC's literary journal Bloodroot, and the online magazine Across the Margin. For two years, she has led a creative writing and social justice group in her hometown of Middlesboro, Kentucky which caters to minority group youth, primarily those in the LGBTQ+ community.

“Thoughts My Morning Coffee Stirs”, “Hangnails and Other Bad Habits” and “Stay in the Lines”

Thoughts My Morning Coffee Stirs I believe in the strength of the first sip of coffee and the rickety leg on the chair at the table. I believe her tattooed shoulder, against my tattooed thigh never altered the planet’s arch, nor the speed cancer grows on a kidney, nor how many children will be cold tonight as they sleep.