As a writer, Victoria loves getting to watch a story sprout and develop: stalk stretching upward, buds flowering, roots inching deeper into secret, unseen places. There is a lot of humility in knowing that, if she wants the real thing, all she can really do is water and tend—the rest is an honest-to-goodness miracle. "So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow." - 1 Corinthians 3:7

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Victoria has worked in a flower shop and a music store; as a primary school teacher, an overnight baker, and manager of the night shift at a bookshop. She began her first job with the public library a few short months after meeting her future husband, Michael. The two now share three children, a fondness for forest rambles, and a home near Lake Simcoe in Central Canada.