Victoria sottosanti
writer. teacher. creator.
Victoria Sottosanti writes essays, memoirs, stories, and poems. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, where she won the 2017 Nonfiction Gift Prize. Her work has been published in The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus, Whitefish Review, Atticus Review, Ruminate Magazine, Bending Genres, Litro Mag, and The Waking. Victoria has been a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2020 and 2024), the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (2022), and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (2023). She has been awarded grants from VSC’s Creative Imperative and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her memoir-in-essays chapbook, What Happened (a Montage), was the third-place finalist in The Master’s Review 2022 Chapbook Open Contest. Currently, she lives in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley with her husband and son, where she dances and teaches ballet, and is revising her site-specific memoir, A Place Called Freedom, based out of Freedom, NH, and the surrounding White Mountains.
One of Victoria’s greatest passions is coming alongside others in their endeavors to communicate, create, and grow. A visionary, she finds great pleasure in helping others creatively process, realize, and birth their unique vision.
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