Victoria Brownworth

Victoria Brownworth is a journalist, writer and editor based in Philadelphia. She’s published more than 20 books as both author and editor, has been anthologized in over 100 books and received numerous literary and journalism awards. A former full-time investigative reporter (currently doing only occasional investigative reporting due to progressive illness) for a series of daily and weekly newspapers, she is a columnist whose work appears nationally in several newspapers and magazines. She was the first AIDS columnist for SPIN magazine, the first lesbian columnist in a daily newspaper and the first journalist to write about women and AIDS and pediatric AIDS in the country. She was book critic for the Baltimore Sun for 16 years until the paper filed for bankruptcy in 2008.

Brownworth writes regularly on national, international and local Philadelphia politics for a variety of newspapers and blogs. She teaches writing and film at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and also holds master classes in writing. Most recently Brownworth won the Society of Professional Journalists award for her four-part investigative series on homeless teens in Philadelphia which received national attention. Her most recent book is Day of the Dead, a collection of short stories with a political (naturally) edge. She is at work on a novel about Trotsky in Mexico.