Victoria Kornick is a writer of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Her first book, Relief, comes out on April 13, 2027.

She teaches as a Creative Writing Lecturer 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.

Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Electric Literature and The Yale Review, and won the 2026 Prairie Schooner Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest.

She is currently at work on a collection of essays and a novel.

Selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

Relief is about the longtime friendship between two women and the art of printmaking.

It’s also “a love, or rather, un-love and re-love story” (Diane Seuss).

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“Relief, with all of the inflections of that word, builds a myth without precedent, and therefore, a myth anew.”

– Diane Seuss
“Victoria Kornick’s brilliant debut collection, Relief, is a breathtaking recalibration of the lyric narrative sequence ... This thrilling, wise and powerful book is an absolute wonder.”

– David St. John
“To move through the changeable and quietly sublime climates of this book is to be moved and changed by them in turn.”

– Tess Gunty
“Relief will stir and capture readers of all stripes ... This book shows us exactly what poetry is capable of.”

– Emily Jungmin Yoon
“At once formally inventive and emotionally exact, these poems navigate lyric and narrative with the precision of a printmaker”

– Diannely Antigua
“Victoria Kornick’s debut collection of poems, Relief, is an antic, irresistible page-turner of a bildungsroman”

– Lisa Russ Spaar

Selected Writing

Victoria Kornick's Essay in Electric Literature

“Guided Meditation”

“Caesura”

Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day

Electric Literature

Victoria Kornick's Essay in The Yale Review

“Eileen”

“Temps”

The Best American Poetry 2025

The Yale Review

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Selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

Relief is about the longtime friendship between two women and the art of printmaking.

It’s also “a love, or rather, un-love and re-love story” (Diane Seuss).

“Relief, with all of the inflections of that word, builds a myth without precedent, and therefore, a myth anew.”

“Victoria Kornick’s brilliant debut collection, Relief, is a breathtaking recalibration of the lyric narrative sequence ... This thrilling, wise and powerful book is an absolute wonder.”

“To move through the changeable and quietly sublime climates of this book is to be moved and changed by them in turn.”

“Relief will stir and capture readers of all stripes ... This book shows us exactly what poetry is capable of.”

“At once formally inventive and emotionally exact, these poems navigate lyric and narrative with the precision of a printmaker”

“Victoria Kornick’s debut collection of poems, Relief, is an antic, irresistible page-turner of a bildungsroman”

Selected Writing