Victoria Blanco

Victoria Blanco is a writer from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, where she taught creative writing and composition courses. Her manuscript was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers’ Prize. Her research and writing have been supported by a Fulbright Award, research fellowships from the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Arts Board grant, a Bakeless Scholarship from Bread Loaf Orion, a writing residency at St. Paul's East Side Freedom Library from Coffee House Press In-the-Stacks, and the 2018 Roxane Gay Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction for the Jack Jones Literary Arts writers' retreat. She was a Fellow in the 2017-2018 Loft Mentor Series. Victoria’s writing has appeared in Catapult, Fourth Genre, and Bat City Review.

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Forthcoming

Contributor to NYT, Literary Hub, and Catapult Magazine Victoria Blanco's OUT OF THE SIERRA, pitched in the style of Katherine Boo's BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, following the Gutierrez family from the Sierra Madre mountains to Oasis, the largest government-funded indigenous settlement in northern Mexico, serving to elevate the stories of displaced Rarámuris and interrogate the systems and history that cause their people's displacement and poverty, through the lens of indigenous resistance, identity, race, and climate change. Coming soon from Coffee House Press.