Melissa Dodd

Victoria Zackheim spent her childhood in Los Angeles (Compton) and graduated from UCLA. 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 book editor and an instructor in the UCLA Writers’ Program. Her book reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and many online sites. The author writes and records commentaries for The Mimi Geerges Show (Satellite XM radio and public radio stations about writing, writers, and life in the United States and is a frequent keynote speaker for non-profit organizational and academic events. She is story developer and writer of the documentary film Tracing Thalidomide: The Frances Kelsey Story (Rosemarie Reed Productions), scheduled for a 2009 release. Victoria is editor of two anthologies: The Other Woman (GrandCentralPublishing) and For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance (Seal Press/Avalon).