Hi, I'm Victoria Veldhoen.

Where Questions Unasked began.

My obsession with questions unasked started in 2008, when I was 20 years old, and my mother died from cervical cancer. I didn't have the capacity at the time to fully understand the family history I'd lost, but it became more apparent as the years went on and I was left with more and more questions I could never ask her: what it was like to get married, or have children, or change careers, or why she made any of the choices she ever made.

Between 2017 and 2019, I completed an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Goddard College, focused on the craft of making real people's memories come to life in book form. I've also taught adults how to write their own memoirs, and led group grief sessions for young women who've lost one or both parents. Those experiences gave me an acute sense of what makes a good story, and which questions tend to come up again and again when you're probing the depths of another person's life.

That same instinct now drives both sides of my work: helping families capture a parent's or grandparent's stories before it's too late, and helping founders, professionals, and survivors turn their own hardest and most meaningful experiences into full, publishable books.