Victoria Gomelsky is editor-in-chief of the jewelry trade publication JCK and a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Robb Report. Her freelance work has appeared in AFAR, WSJ Magazine, TheHollywood Reporter, and the anthology Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in political science in 1995 and earned her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University in 2002. Victoria is based in Los Angeles.
The 2024 winners were crowned at the ceremony on Nov. 13, five days after my fellow jury members and I spent an entire day deep in horological deliberation.