Victoria Barrett, Bio

A casual headshot of a white woman with blond hair. Victoria Barrett's short stories have appeared in The Normal School, Colorado Review, Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Monkeybicyle, and Puerto del Sol. Her essays, humor writing, political articles, and criticism have appeared in Gay Magazine, Salon, Indy Maven, Washington Post and Maximum Middle Age. She earned an MFA in fiction writing from New Mexico State University in 2002. Victoria lives and writes in the Herron-Morton historic neighborhood of Indianapolis.

Victoria worked most recently as the Marketing Manager at Cascadeo, a public cloud managed & professional services and generative AI firm. Learn about her marketing work via the "marketing" link below.

She is working on a novel, Saturn in the Northern Sky, about a family living in Indiana farm country in the late 1970s, and an untitled story collection.

Victoria also served as editor and publisher of Engine Books, a boutique fiction press, and as a freelance editor and writing coach. Her portfolio is behind the "writing" link below, and you can read about her editing work via the "editing" link or learn more at enginebooks.org.


Victoria Barrett's short stories have appeared in The Normal School, Colorado Review, Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Monkeybicyle, and Puerto del Sol. Her essays, humor writing, political articles, and criticism have appeared in Gay Magazine, Salon, Indy Maven, Washington Post and Maximum Middle Age. She earned an MFA in fiction writing from New Mexico State University in 2002. Victoria lives and writes in the Herron-Morton historic neighborhood of Indianapolis. Victoria worked most recently as the Marketing Manager at Cascadeo, a public cloud managed & professional services and generative AI firm. Learn about her marketing work via the "marketing" link below. She is working on a novel, Saturn in the Northern Sky, about a family living in Indiana farm country in the late 1970s, and an untitled story collection. Victoria also served as editor and publisher of Engine Books, a boutique fiction press, and as a freelance editor and writing coach. Her portfolio is behind the "writing" link below, and you can read about her editing work via the "editing" link or learn more at enginebooks.org.