Victoria Nelson is a writer of fiction, criticism, and memoir. Her books include the award-winning Gothicka and The Secret Life of Puppets, both published by Harvard University Press; two collections of stories, Wild California and A Bestiary of My Heart, a memoir, My Time in Hawaii; and On Writer’s Block. She edited the Robert Aickman collection Compulsory Games for New York Review Books. Neighbor George is her first novel.

She was a Guggenheim Fellow for the 2016-17 academic year and edited and wrote the introduction to the New York Review Books edition of Robert Aickman’s story collection Compulsory Games, published in 2018.