Vironika Wilde is a Toronto-based, Ukrainian-born and Russian-indigenous poet, spoken word artist, activist, writing coach, and workshop facilitator. Readers often call her raw, honest, and willing to spill tough truths about trauma, society, and the human condition.
As a stage poet, she’s performed in many cities, including Toronto, Vancouver, Honolulu, Portland, Sydney, and Melbourne. Her debut poetry collection, Love and Gaslight, as well as her spoken word album, Too Much For You, released in 2020.
In 2022, Vironika performed poetry at the Toronto International Storytelling Festival, won third place in Room Magazine‘s poetry contest and was shortlisted for the Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize.
In 2023, she received the Ontario Arts Council Literary Grant for her upcoming poetry collection, Step-Mother Tongue, and again returned to the Toronto International Storytelling Festival for a group show involving theatre and spoken word.
Vironika’s poems have appeared in Canthius Literary Magazine, Room Magazine online, Fresh Words, The Parlor Magazine, and Remembering Charles Bukowski (anthology). Her words have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Bustle, Psych Central, Insight Timer app, Poetry Pause, Book Riot, and poets.ca.
When Vironika isn’t writing, she loves getting lost, looking at the stars, singing to her kids, and eating pickles (sometimes, all at once).