Victoria Costello

Exploring female identity in fiction & nonfiction

Victoria Costello


An Emmy Award winning documentary writer & producer turned author of fiction and nonfiction books

Past work in film and TV


Received as writer, THIS ISLAND EARTH

Music performance & nature images from the program, a co-production with National Audubon Society for The Disney Channel

On the set of TV special, THIS ISLAND EARTH with host Kenny Loggins

The return of an ancient teacher to Yellowstone, told from the point of view of a Native American Wolf Clan...writer & producer.

New & Upcoming Works

My latest blog posts have generated much discussion about mental illness and how families cope or don't

A personal journey through three generations of mental illness leads to Galway
A science memoir titled, A LETHAL INHERITANCE, UNCOVERING MENTAL ILLNESS BEHIND FAMILY SECRETS

As I search for causes and connections in the mental illness that afflicts three generations of my family, I interweave memoir and reporting on the latest discoveries in brain science and a new paradigm in treatment to tell the story of how my grown children and I reach recovery as a family.

Winner, 2009 San Francisco Writers Conference Dyer Nonfiction Award for her science memoir (in process)

Judges comments...

"In the end it was a poignant personal story submitted by Victoria Costello that had all the judges wanting to read more ..."
Feb 1, 2009

LOST SECRETS OF THE GODDESS prescriptive nonfiction for the woman who wishes she had Aphrodite, Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene and Queen Elizabeth I on Speedial.

The Goddesses of history advise today's women on how to find a woman friendly path to the things that have really mattered to women throughout time: love, sex, work, motherhood, community and spirit.

LOVE BETWEEN MORTALS, a novel
Book-ended by two weddings, one gay, the other straight, Victoria Costello’s new novel LOVE BETWEEN MORTALS explores the timeless question of whether love survives best in or out of marriage. Claire Fitzgerald is a never-married scholar of medieval literature who, because of the early death of her beloved father and a merging of identities with her signature literary character, Chaucer’s 14th century “Wife of Bath” believes that true love between mere mortals is not possible or even desirable. That is, until at 39 she becomes romantically entangled with two British brothers, Michael and Alfie Upton, and in short order becomes consumed by love in all its permutations and contradictions. Set in San Francisco and London.

Narrative Nonfiction
Prescriptive Nonfiction
Lost Secrets of the Goddess
For the woman exploring the Divine Feminine as a source of guidance on love, work, faith and motherhood
Fiction
LOVE BETWEEN MORTALS, a novel
Pride and Prejudice meets Tales of the City
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