Victoria Kornick

Victoria Kornick is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Relief, selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. Her personal essays and poetry appear in The Yale Review, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, The Nashville Review, American Chordata, The Greensboro Review, and The Best American Poetry series, among others. 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 holds an MFA in Poetry Writing from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow, and a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern California. She teaches creative writing at Emory University and is at work on an essay collection and a novel.