California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch invites you to meet acclaimed author, Victoria Zacheim. She is the author of the novel, The Bone Weaver, and editor of five anthologies: He Said What?: Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed, The Other Woman: Twenty-one 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, and Exit Laughing: How We Use Humor to Take the Sting Out of Death. Her play, The Other Woman, based on her first anthology, is now in development at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Zacheim’s first screenplay, MAIDSTONE, was optioned by Identity Films for a feature film.
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, which will be aired nationwide on PBS in the coming months. Zacheim teaches Personal Essay in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and was a 2010 San Francisco Library Laureate. Visit her website http://www.victoriazackheim.com/