Victor Contoski (born 1936, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and university professor of Polish descent, best known for his science-fiction chess story Von Goom's Gambit, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966. He got his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of WisconsinMadison in 1969. In 1980 he edited a book of poetry by poets of Polish ancestry, Blood of Their Blood. He is retired and resides in Lawrence, Kansas.