Victoria Kornick is a writer, visual artist, and gardener. Her first book, Relief, was selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and will be published by Sarabande Books in 2027. She as at work on a collection of essays about commercial horticulture and the ways we value botanical life.
Victoria’s poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2025 (Scribner), 32 Poems, Electric Literature, Copper Nickel, The Greensboro Review, and The Yale Review, among other publications. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Community of Writers, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
Victoria teaches at Emory University as a Lecturer in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature, with a specialization in Creative Nonfiction, from the University of Southern California, an MFA in Poetry Writing from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe and Goldwater Hospital fellow, and a BA with Distinction from the University of Virginia. Victoria has taught creative writing and composition courses at NYU and USC, and has also worked as a freelance editor and a teaching artist.