Victoria Kelly

Photograph by Jessica Van Nest

About The Author

Victoria Kelly received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her BA Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University, and her MPhil in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin, where she was a US Mitchell Scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection When the Men Go Off to War. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry 2013 and Contemporary American Poetry, as well as Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review. She lives in Virginia with her husband and daughters.

Books by Victoria Kelly

Mrs. Houdini

A Novel

By Victoria Kelly
“Richly lyrical and thought-provoking” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this “stellar debut from a novelist to watch” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author) explores the passionate marriage of Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess—a love story that defied death itself.
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