About

Victoria Zackheim is author of The Bone Weaver and creator/editor of six anthologies, including The Other Woman, which she adapted to the theater. Her play Entangled was based on the memoir of the same name. Victoria wrote Maidstone, a feature film about the IRA prison breakout in Northern Ireland, now under development, and is working with Amber Entertainment and mystery writer Anne Perry on a series based on Perry's Thomas Pitt series. . Victoria wrote the documentary Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, which aired nationwide on PBS. She created Women's Voices, an event in which five authors present their work and discuss the craft of writing and the life of a writer. She teaches creative nonfiction/essay in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and is a San Francisco Library Laureate.

Other Works

  • Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death

    2012