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A Bay Area poet who splits her time between Portola Valley and Pescadero, Veronica Kornberg is a recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, and the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Catamaran, Plume, Calyx, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Veronica co-founded a long-running poetry reading club on the Peninsula, and is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review. At her home in Pescadero, you can find her exploring the tidepools, or on her knees in the dirt, tending her habitat garden of coastal scrub. Her full-length poetry collection, Strange Gift, was published in April 2026.