Victoria Brehm

Victoria Brehm Ph.D. is a retired university professor who writes about Great Lakes maritime history and literature. Her seminal collection of women’s narratives, "The Women’s Great Lakes Reader," was named one of “Fifty Essential Books for Michigan History” by the Library of Michigan. A National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, she created the first comprehensive anthology of Great Lakes Native literatures, "Star Songs and Water Spirits: A Great Lakes Native Reader." When she discovered a fragment of an autobiography by a métisse woman from Lake Superior, she searched until she found the entire manuscript, which became "A Little History of My Forest Life." Her work finding and editing lost Great Lakes narratives has been honored by the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History with the Labadie Award for Historic Preservation. She was a founding member and first president of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society and has written frequently about her. She lives on her family’s sesquicentennial farm in Michigan where she operates the Ladyslipper Press.