Victor D. Infante is a poet, journalist, and fiction writer who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, raised in Southern California, educated in England, and has resided in Worcester, Massachusetts, with his wife, poet and artist Lea Deschenes, for many years. He was the founding editor of such literary and political journals as The November 4th Club and Radius Lit. Both publications featured poetry and essays from local and globally recognized poets and writers. He has also been a frequent guest on radio programs (on stations such as WCRN, WTAG, WCUW, KXLU and KUCI) including Barbara DeMarco Barrett’s podcast, Writers on Writing, discussing music, literature, popular culture and his own writing. He has also provided writing workshops, most recently an online workshop called “Breaking the Rules (of Writing)” for Poetry Salon.
Victor D. Infante’s poetry publications include The Chiron Review, The Collagist, Barrelhouse, Pearl, Spillway and The Banyan Review, and anthologies such as Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry; Spoken Word Revolution Redux; The Last American Valentine: Poems to Seduce and Destroy; Aim For the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry and The Incredible Sestina Anthology. Infante’s book publications include City of Insomnia (Write Bloody Publishing, 2008); the self-released essay collection Feels Like Failure, Every Time: Thoughts on Writing, Pop Culture, Politics and Violence (2019); and his latest book, Suffer for This: Love, Sex, Marriage & Rock n’ Roll which was published by Moontide Press in 2024. He is also the author of more than a dozen chapbooks.
In addition, Victor D. Infante is the features editor for the Telegram & Gazette and the editor of Worcester Magazine. Prior to starting at the Telegram & Gazette in 2002, he was a contributing writer for alt-weeklies including Worcester Magazine and OC Weekly in California, as well as various rock and poetry ‘zines. He’s won six NENPA Awards for Arts & Entertainment Reporting and has been a nominee six years in a row for the Boston Music Awards’ “Music Journalist of the Year.”