Victoria C. Flanagan’s work has appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, and RHINO.  She is the recipient of the 2017 Thomas B. Gay Graduate Poetry Award and the Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Flanagan earned an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as the 2016–2017 lead associate editor for Blackbird. She is a lecturer at Central Washington University.