Victoria Kelly received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop, her B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University, and her M.Phil. in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin, where she was a US Mitchell Scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection "When the Men Go Off to War. "Her fiction and poetry have appeared in the anthologies "Best American Poetry 2013" and "Contemporary American Poetr"y, as well as "Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, "and "North American Review". She lives in Virginia with her husband and daughters.