Victoria C. Flanagan's a genderfluid writer whose work examines disability, gender, class, and the American South. Flanagan is the author of Glossary of Unsaid Terms, winner of Beloit Poetry Journal's 2020 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. A former Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, their work has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize, Palette Poetry's Emerging Poets Prize, and a scholar's distinction from the Sewanee Writer's Conference, among other honors. Flanagan's work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, The Boiler, Verse Daily, New South, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. Originally from western North Carolina, they work in tech and teach creative writing at the University of Chicago.