Victor McConnell grew up in a small town in Texas and graduated from Dartmouth's creative writing program in 2004.  After a year in a wheelchair in 2005 and a long, mostly dormant period from 2010-2019, he resumed writing fiction and poetry in 2020. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes as well as Best of the Net. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in a variety of literary journals, such as the Los Angeles Review, Louisville Review, New Ohio Review, Mid-Atlantic Review, Free State Review, and many others. His first book, a collection of short stories titled WHEN EVEN THE BONES HAVE THINNED, will be published by Hidden River Press out of Philadelphia in 2026. A chapbook of his poetry titled IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS is available for purchase from Bottlecap Press. He lives in Golden, Colorado.