is a native Texan who discovered early in life that she was equal parts writer and wanderer. This wandering has taken her through much of the Midwest and the South, the experiences of which has found inevitable roots in the makings of her writing. Her current perch is in the Pacific Northwest, where she has decided to watch the Seattle rain and sit still long enough to put words to paper.

While she’s known she wanted to be an author since she was eight years old, “July Burning Bright” is her first publication. In addition, Victoria has a novel currently in progress, which will be an urban fantasy set in Dallas, and several short stories in varying stages of completion. In the past, she has been a runner-up in the “100 Words or Fewer” writing contest with her story, “The Wedding Dowry” placing third.

Victoria is twenty-three years old and lives with her remarkably tolerant roommates and five cats. When not writing, she looks for odd jobs to work on, and has done everything from hawking wares in a flea market booth to doing a radiologist’s laundry before filing his x-rays. She is an aspiring student, but has yet to determine which major will net her the best story, whether it be genetic engineering, 19th century poetry, meteorology, or some combination of all three. For now, she has found simply being a student of life to be an adequate inspiration.