Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. She attended university at IADT in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where she studied English, Media and Cultural Studies. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Sunburn is her debut novel.
Intense and all-consuming - like the first love it describes - Sunburn transported me to the heart of summer and the heady days of late adolescence. I won't soon forget Chloe Michelle Howarth's addictive, lushly written debut -- Laura Sims, author of Looker, Capturing all the intensity of first love, blended with the claustraphobia of small-town life, this debut, inspired by real experience, is tender and raw * The Bookseller * A beautiful coming of age love novel written with an insightful poetical prose, rich with religious allegory and texture which underscores the transformative, spiritual power of first love explored -- Scene * Scene Magazine * This is an often gut-wrenching divulgence into a complex queer story that, though it is not light-hearted, painstakingly captures the realities of queerness in 1990s small-town Ireland. -- S. Joy * The Gay Saint *