Victoria Kornick is the author of Relief (Sarabande Books, 2027), selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

She is a Lecturer in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry at Emory University.

Victoria holds a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Poetry from New York University.

She writes about gardens, visual art, and friendship. She is currently at work on a collection of essays and a novel.