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Biography

VICTORIA ZACKHEIM is the author of the novel, The Bone Weaver, and editor of five anthologies: He Said What?, The Other Woman; For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance, The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age, and Exit Laughing: How We Use Humor to Take the Sting Out of Death (North Atlantic Books, Spring 2012). She is story developer and writer of the documentary film Tracing Thalidomide: The Frances Kelsey Story, and writer of Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, both produced by On the Road Productions. Victoria teaches Personal Essay in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Her play, The Other Woman, based on her first anthology, is now in development with Jonathan and Hillary Reinis Productions. Victoria was named a 2010 San Francisco Library Laureate.

Selected Works

Anthology
Some of our countries finest authors share the personal experiences of death...and humor. Their pieces are poignant, funny, intimate, and sometimes downright laugh-out-loud hysterical.
Creative Non-fiction: Anthology
Do we devote our energies to beauty and fitness? Do we fight our body ... or befriend it? Twenty-seven gifted authors share their secrets.

When you were a child, how did you imagine yourself as an adult? And now that you're an adult, have you become that person? Leading authors answer these questions.

A cheating husband? An unfaithful wife? A child affected by infidelity? Many viewpoints, from emotional to funny, raging to accepting. All of them memorable!
Fiction
“The sense of place... past and present, is captivating and profound.”
–Book Passage (News and Reviews)

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