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Alice Underwood Writing Together
 Victoria Grossack
Dartmouth graduate Victoria Grossack leads an international life, with
homes in Switzerland and Arizona and a professional career in the financial
industry that has spanned the Atlantic. She is fluent in German and French
(and English of course) and has an MBA. Her last full-time position was as a
Senior Vice President in New York City for a reinsurance company, but she is
currently writing full-time and living with her husband who is a professor at
the University of Arizona. Her writing has been published in Contingencies,
Woman’s World, I Love Cats, and The Journal of Actuarial Practice.
She is a regular columnist for Writing-World. In
addition to the five Greek mythology based novels that she has written with
Alice Underwood, she is the author of The
Highbury Murders: A Mystery Set in the Village of Jane Austen’s Emma.
She also tutors mathematics, as solving problems in algebra and geometry make
a nice break from creative writing.
 Alice
Underwood studied classics at The University of Texas and Princeton
University while earning her degrees in mathematics. Her passion for
antiquity has taken her from the shadowed catacombs of Princeton’s libraries
to the ruins of Pompeii and the sunny shores of Crete and Santorini.
Her work has been published in Consortium, Networks, and The
Journal of Actuarial Practice. Currently an Executive Vice President at
one of the world’s top insurance brokerage firms, Alice lives and works in
New York City.
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In 1998, Victoria and Alice tied for first place in an international short
story contest. After collaborating on several nonfiction pieces, they decided
to apply their complementary strengths and perspectives to a work of fiction.
Their first novel, Jocasta, reimagines the story of Oedipus from the
point of view of his wife and mother.
A vibrant tale set in Bronze Age Greece, Jocasta has garnered
rave reviews from university faculty, publications such as Historical Novels
Reviews Online, and numerous readers. A Greek-language version of Jocasta
was released by Kedros Publishers of Athens in
2006. In 2009, Kedros released Niobe and Pelops,
the first novel of a trilogy based on the life and myths surrounding Niobe.
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