Victoria Kornick

Victoria Kornick is a poet and essayist from Virginia. She holds a PhD in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern California, an MFA in poetry from New York University, and a BA from the University of Virginia. 

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 has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Community of Writers.

A creative writing lecturer at Emory University, Kornick lives in Decatur, Georgia.