Victoria Kornick is a writer from Virginia. She holds an MFA in Poetry Writing from New York University, where she was awarded Rona Jaffe and Goldwater Hospital fellowships, and she has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Community of Writers, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
Victoria’s lyric essays appear in The Yale Review, Nashville Review, Los Angeles Review of Books: Voluble, and At Length Magazine. Her manuscript of poetry has been a finalist for the 2023 Four Way Books Levis Prize and a semi-finalist for the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize at Persea Books, and poems from the manuscript appear in Copper Nickel, American Chordata, and The Greensboro Review, among other publications.
Victoria is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Nonfiction in the Literature and Creative Writing program at the University of Southern California, where she is at work on a memoir in essays.