Divya Victor

Divya Victor is the author of CURB (Nightboat Books, 2021), winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award and the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition, CURB was a finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry.

Victor is also the author of Kith (Fence Books/Book*hug, 2017); Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays (Merve Verlag, translated by Lena Schmidt, 2020); Natural Subjects (Trembling Pillow, 2014); Unsub (Insert Blanc, 2014); and Things to Do with Your Mouth (Les Figues, 2014). Her work has been collected in numerous publications, including BOMB, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: International Journal of Conceptual Writing, the Best American Experimental Writing, Poetry magazine, the Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and boundary 2.

Victor’s work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Czech. She has received support from the Riverrun Foundation, was a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at the University of California San Diego, and was a writer-in-residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (L.A.C.E.). Her work has been performed at or installed in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (L.A.C.E.), and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Victor has been an editor at Jacket2, Ethos Books, Invisible Publishing, and Book*hug Press. She is currently an associate professor of English and writing at Michigan State University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.