Veronica is a graduate of Brown University. Since she began to write creatively in September 2021, she has studied poetry with Mark Doty and Ellen Bass, among others, as well as at Philip Schultz’ The Writers Studio and the extension schools at Stanford University, U. C. Berkeley and UCLA.
Veronica, writing as V. A. Bettencourt, was an International Merit Award winner in the Atlanta Review 2023 International Poetry Competition.
While at Brown, Veronica founded and was Editor in Chief of the undergraduate literary magazine Ophelia.
She is currently a reader at Palette Poetry.
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