Victor D. Infante

Victor D. Infante (born 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and critic. A 1993 graduate of the British campus of New England College at Arundel, West Sussex, he emerged as a writer and performer at poetry readings in Orange County, California, and as a Contributor to OC Weekly. He has been intermittently involved with poetry slam, and competed at the 1998 National Poetry Slam Finals in Austin, Texas. His writing has appeared in a wide range of periodicals, as well as the anthologies "Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry" from Manic D Press and "Spoken Word Revolution Redux" from Sourcebooks MediaFusion. He has been a winner of The North Hills Press Poetry Prize and the Jacob Knight Award.

He is currently the editor in chief of The November 3rd Club, and online literary journal of political writing, and the author of the column "How To Succeed As A Failing Writer" for GotPoetry.com. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, with his wife, poet Lea C. Deschenes.