Veronica is a San Francisco Bay Area poet who splits her time between Portola Valley and Pescadero, a small coastal town on the Central Coast. She is a recipient of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry, and the Morton Marcus Poetry 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. She 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 habitat garden of coastal scrub. Veronica’s debut poetry collection, Strange Gift, will be published by Wandering Aengus Press in April, 2026.