Victoria Male is a 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Finalist whose writing also made the industry-wide 2024 Love List. Most recently, she served as an In-House Writer for the audio entertainment platform PocketFM.

Her prose has appeared in over a dozen literary magazines, including oranges Journal, The Chamber Magazine, Carolina Muse, The Icarus Writing Collective, and Retrospect Journal. She’s also written op-eds and personal essays spanning a variety of topics for major publications like No Film School and Salty Magazine.

A New Jersey native and Tar Heel, Victoria is a shrewd adaptor of biography, history, and mythology, and is particularly drawn to unearthing and illuminating the parts of the past that are relevant today. She seeks to balance both spectacle and character intimacy as a storyteller as well as champions inclusivity on and beyond the page.

Victoria worked with some of the most prolific talent in Hollywood today through spending five years in creative development at The Montecito Picture Company under Ghostbusters’ director/producer Ivan Reitman. Recently, she aided in launching the Western arm of media startup Graphic India.

From 2017-2020, she co-created/produced/hosted the podcast Your Biggest Fangirl, which sought to explore and celebrate pop culture from a feminine point of view. She produced over fifty episodes with guests that included Ant Man trilogy director Peyton Reed as well as Star Wars actress and entrepreneur Ashley Eckstein.

Photo Credit: Jackie Male