Victoria Buitron is a translator, a creative writing instructor, and an award-winning writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. She is currently the Competitions Editor for Harbor Review, and has worked as an editor for literary magazines such as Brevity, Causeway Lit, Fractured Lit, and Variant Lit. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, SmokeLong en Español, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The Acentos Review, and HuffPost, among others. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. Her flash fiction was selected for 2022’s Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf’s Top 50.

In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. She had the joy and privilege of selecting the nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the 2023 Connecticut Literary Anthology and will be returning in 2024 as the project’s nonfiction editor. Craigardan, Tin House, GrubStreet, Sundress Publications and more organizations have championed her work through grants and/or writing residencies. In winter 2024, she will attend a Tin House workshop to complete her poetry book and will later participate in a writing residency by Sundress Publications in Knoxville, Tennessee. Because she embraces creative chaos, she is also working on a novel about love, violence, and betrayal.