Biography

Victoria Zackheim is the author of The Curtain Falls in Paris, the first in a three- book mystery series featuring American journalist Aria Nevins and French homicide inspector Noah Roche. She is the author of the novel, The Bone Weaver, and editor of seven anthologies. Her play, The Other Woman, based on her first anthology (international bestseller), had a nationwide, simultaneous reading at more than twenty theaters across the country in November, 2015, and is available as a fundraiser for women's/family shelters. Her first play, A Deadly Competition (directed by Lee Chamberlain), dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the United States and France. She wrote Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps (On the Road Productions), which ran nationwide on PBS. Victoria teaches Personal Essay and Memoir in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She has appeared twice on the Today show, the first time to discuss The Other Woman anthology, and the second as part of a panel focused on emotional infidelity. Victoria is a San Francisco Library Laureate.