Veronica is a Bay Area poet who splits her time between Portola Valley and the small coastal town of Pescadero, on the Central Coast. She is a recipient of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry, and the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize. Veronica's poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, New Ohio Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, Plume, Calyx, Salamander, Indiana Review, Rattle, and Catamaran Literary Reader. Veronica is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review. At her home in Pescadero, she can be found happily exploring the tidepools or on her knees in the dirt in her large habitat garden of coastal scrub. Her debut poetry collection, “Strange Gift,” will be published by Wandering Aengus Press in early 2026.
