About.

Victoria Kelly is the author of Homefront (University of Nevada Press), Mrs. Houdini (Simon & Schuster/Atria), When the Men Go Off to War (Naval Institute Press), and Prayers of an American Wife (Autumn House Press). 

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Victoria graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin, where she was a U.S. Mitchell Scholar.

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Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review and dozens of other journals and anthologies. Her novel Mrs. Houdini was a People Magazine Best New Book, a USA Today New and Noteworthy Book, a Jeopardy Pick and a Publishers Weekly Starred Debut.

 

She lives in Maryland with her husband and their five children.