Based in Stockholm, Sweden, multi-disciplinary, bilingual artist Vega Victoria is a writer, musician, and translator. She has an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University and an MA in Scandinavian Studies at University of California at Berkeley. A PhD candidate at UCB, she has taught creative writing, literature, and language at Rutgers University, Deep Springs College, Johnson and Wales University, and University of California at Berkeley and has lived in New York City, New Orleans, Joshua Tree, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Currently at work on a literary memoir, Vega Victoria has received artist grants, residencies, and awards from the Villa Lena Foundation in Italy, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Jentel Foundation, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the National Arts Club, Columbia University, the Swedish Institute, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.