Veronica Kornberg is a recipient of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry and the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. Her debut collection, Strange Gift, was published in April 2026. She is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review, and co-founded a long-running poetry book club on the SF Peninsula. Veronica's poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Calyx, and Plume. She splits her time between Portola Valley and Pescadero, where she is restoring the land to native coastal scrub.