About the Speaker
Victoria Hallerman is a poet and health advocate, and the author of the new book HOW WE SURVIVED PROSTATE CANCER: What We Did and What We Should Have Done. Her poetry was anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses. Her book of poems, The Aerialist, won the Bright Hill Prize. As a result of her husband’s cancer, she became a member of Man to Man, the national prostate cancer support network, and co-founder of “What About Me?,” a support group for partners of cancer patients and survivors. She and her husband, Dean, have been married since 1969. They live in New York City.
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