Victoria Hammond is an award-winning author with a background as art historian and curator. Hammond has worked as Director at Shepparton Art Gallery and as Guest Curator at National Gallery of Victoria. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Hammond has written several art exhibition catalogues and is the author of 'Letters from St Petersburg' and 'The Devil and Maria d'Avalos'. Hammond has been awarded several funding grants to assist with her work. She won the Varuna Fellowship, Eleanor Dark Foundation for 'Letters from St Petersburg'.