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AUNT CHLOE, formerly titled FOCUS Magazine, is Spelman College’s "oldest and only literary magazine, and serves those who seek to reclaim the spaces denied them by cultural and historical tyranny."

Former editors and writers for Aunt Chloe include novelists Alice Walker and Tayari Jones; writer and visual artist Mendi Lewis Obadike; short story writer Chantal James, and the poets Bettina Judd, Kyla Marshell, and Briana Dixon. Aunt Chloe's former editorial advisory board members include novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage, novelists Tina McElroy Ansa and Kenji Jasper, feminist theory scholar Stefanie Dunning, and the poets Jessica Care Moore and Opal Moore.

Named as a tribute both to Toni Morrison (whose first name is Chloe) and to black women literary characters' complicated histories (Aunt Chloe is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin), Aunt Chloe, according to its website, "belongs to those whose voices have been stifled, whose knowledge and talent have been underestimated, whose experiences have been invalidated, and whose visions have been misjudged and forgotten throughout the history of art, literature, and dialogue."

In 2006, the Afro-Surrealist poet Giovanni Singleton taught a workshop for the literary magazine, with a focus on the magazine's unique literary heritage.