About the Artist
Viki Volk explores how ‘community is created and society’s subsequent control over its members and outcasts whether writing news, features, essays, or novels. Based in Southern Maryland since the 1980s, she reported firsthand on disappearing cultures and environmental loss. Her writing for The Enterprise newspaper is archived. Two of her essays appear in Slackwater journals, one is taught in a St. Mary’s College of Maryland writing class. Her blogs include essays and a short novel. Murder First, Then Slander, a full-length novel inspired by an unsolved 1959 murder in Leonardtown, is crawling toward publication. Her novel-in-progress also revisits old crimes, some committed by crooks and, naturally, others imposed by the particulars of the community. Its working title is, The Making and Breaking of Lexington Park.
