Victoria R. Crosby is an educator, freelance journalist and an award-winning poet who has written for many
newspapers and magazines. She has been an Elvis fan since she was sixteen. Born and raised in Cheshire, England,
Victoria R. Crosby lived for many years on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, before moving to the Atlanta
area of Georgia in 2021. She continues to write for weekly and monthly publications in New York and Georgia.
While living in NY she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Victoria has been poet laureate of the City of Glen Cove since 1994, she has written and read her poetry for many
nonprofit organizations. Her satirical poetry column, “Per-Verse,” was a weekly feature of The Long Island Voice, an
offshoot of the well-known Village Voice.
For over twenty-five years her inspirational and motivational poetry was featured on her weekly radio show “Oasis”
which also included music for relaxation. She wrote the life story of Elvis Presley in rhyming verse, which was
interspersed with his music, and performed on the radio twice a year on the anniversaries of his birth and death.
Close Encounters of the ELVIS Kind is her first book of prose.