Victoria Dalpe is an artist and writer based out of Providence, RI. She is inspired and fascinated by the dichotomy of the beautiful and the grotesque. For the past eight years, she has been the Gallery Chair and on the Board for the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative. Previous to that, Victoria worked at the MoMA and various other NYC Museums. Her short fiction appears in over thirty anthologies. Her short story collection, Les Femmes Grotesques, came out in fall of 2022 with CLASH BOOKS and her first novel Parasite Life will be rereleased in 2023 by Nightscape Press.