Victor D. Infante is a poet, author, and journalist living in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he is the features editor for the Telegram & Gazette and the editor of Worcester Magazine. His poems, stories, essays, and articles have been published in dozens of periodicals internationally, and he is the author of City of Insomni, from Write Bloody Publishing, the self-published Feels Like Failure, Every Time: Thoughts on Writing, Pop Culture, Politics and Violence, 2004-2018, and Suffer For This: Love, Sex, Marriage and Rock ‘n’ Roll, from Moon Tide Press. He is the winner of the 2025 Stanley Kunitz Medal for Poetry and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Worcester Music Awards.