Victoria C. Flanagan is the author of Glossary of Unsaid Terms, winner of Beloit Poetry Journal's 2020 Chad Walsh Chapbook prize. Flanagan's writing has also been awarded an Academy of American Poetry Prize, the Emerging Poets Prize from Palette Poetry, and a Sewanee Writer's Conference scholarship, among other honors. Their work has appeared in the Adroit Journal, The Boiler, Verse Daily, New South, Appalachian Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere. A poet and essayist raised in small-town North Carolina, they hold a dual-genre MFA in poetry and nonfiction from Virginia Commonwealth University, and are the 2020-21 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
Victoria C. Flanagan's a genderfluid writer whose work examines disability, gender, class, and the American South. Flanagan is the author of Glossary of Unsaid Terms, winner of Beloit Poetry Journal's 2020 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. A former Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, their work has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize, Palette Poetry's Emerging Poets Prize, and a scholar's distinction from the Sewanee Writer's Conference, among other honors. Flanagan's work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, The Boiler, Verse Daily, New South, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. Originally from western North Carolina, they work in tech and teach creative writing at the University of Chicago.