Victoria Zackheim is the author of The Bone Weaver and editor of five anthologies of personal essays, written by many of the country's top authors: The Other Woman: 21 Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal; 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; He Said What? Women Write About the Moments When Everything Changed, and Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death (North Atlantic Books 2012).

Victoria adapted five essays from The Other Woman and created a play, now in development with Jonathan Reinis Productions and scheduled for nationwide productions in 2012. She is story developer and writer of the documentary film Tracing Thalidomide: The Frances Kelsey Story (in production), and writer for Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps (which will air on PBS in 2012), both with On the Road Productions. Her feature film about an event in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the early 1970s is in development with Matthew Muzio from No Attachment Films.

Victoria teaches Personal Essay in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She is a 2010 San Francisco Library Laureate.

"This was my first extension online course. I loved it. Ms. Zackheim was well organized, with great content and knowledge. I learned so much from this course."

"Victoria was extremely organized in her assignments. She delivered a class that was riveting and definitely challenging."

"Her knowledge, experience and strong organizational skills were very evident. She offered timely responses and her editorial comments/suggestions were excellent."

"Victoria is extraordinarily knowledgeable in the field of personal essay. She was extremely effective in communicating how to write an exceptional essay."

Here is a link to an article Victoria wrote that appeared in the September 20th 2011 Huffington Post: "Rats in San Francisco?"

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