About

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’s 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 SmokeLong en Español, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The Acentos Review, and HuffPost, among others. Unburying the Bones, her collection of poems, was selected as the winner for the first annual 2025 VersoFrontera Poetry Prize and was published by Texas Review Press. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner (Woodhall Press). 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 was the series editor for the Connecticut Literary Anthology in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Craigardan, Tin House, GrubStreet, Sundress Publications and more organizations have championed her work through grants or writing residencies. With close to a decade of experience in development, she holds the position of Assistant Director, Donor Relations at Yale School of Medicine.