Victoria Zackheim spent her childhood in Los Angeles (Compton), received her BA from UCLA and MA from California State University, San Francisco. In 1990, she
fulfilled a lifelong dream and went to Paris, with the intention of remaining for three months. Five years later, she returned to the San Francisco area and completed her first novel,
The Bone Weaver, published in 2001.
Victoria is now a freelance editor and creative writing instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She is the editor of three anthologies: The Other Woman: 21 Wives,
Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal (Grand Central Publishing), For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing
Older, and Acceptance (Seal Press/Avalon), and Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age (Prometheus Books).
The author writes and records commentaries for The Mimi Geerges Show (Satellite XM radio and public radio), and is a frequent keynote speaker for non-profit organizational and academic
events. She is the developer and writer of the documentary film Tracing Thalidomide: The Frances Kelsey Story (On the Road Productions) and is completing a theater adaption of The Other Woman.
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