Victoria Hallerman

Victoria Hallerman is a poet, teacher, and health activist. For over thirty years she has written and published poetry, including two chapbooks, The Woman in the Magic Show and Night Garden, as well as one full collection, The Aerialist, which won The Bright Hill Prize in 2005. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Academy of American Poets, and has appeared in Poetry, Pushcart, and other literary magazines or anthologies. In 2002, her life took a surprising turn. As a result of her husband's cancer, she became a member of Man to Man, the national prostate cancer support network and a co-founder of What About Me?, a support group for partners of cancer patients and survivors. Her first prose title, a memoir-as-cautionary-tale, How We Survived Prostate Cancer: What we did and what we should have done (Newmarket Press, 2009) began as a journal of her experience from the partner's perspective. She and her husband Dean—a full partner in the book whose voice appears throughout—have been married since 1969. Dean has been cancer free for eight years.