Poetry

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Veronica's poetry, also published as V. A. Bettencourt, has appeared or is forthcoming in literary magazines throughout the world, including Reed Magazine, Magma, Crab Orchard Review, and Crab Creek Review, among many others. Her work was selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of Gulf Stream Magazine’s 2025 Wet! poetry contest, by Rena Priest as finalist (top 3 poems) for the 2025 Crab Creek Review Prize, nominated for Best of the Net, short-listed for the UK's Bridport Prize, and long-listed for the 2025 and 2024 Fish Poetry Prize Judged by Billy Collins. Veronica studies poetry with Mark Doty and is a candidate for an MFA in poetry at Pacific University.

See select published poems at https://linktr.ee/vabettencourt