Victoria Grainger is a writer of fiction and stage plays and founder of Untamed Shrew Productions.

She has an MA in Shakespeare and Theatre from The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-Upon-Avon and a BA in Literature. She writes and researches with a classical awareness but with a distinctive, contemporary voice. She is currently working on her prose stories and stage plays. She was awarded the Jack Kerouac online writing competition for a prose short in 2009.

"Good writing should always wound us and leave us winded emotionally. I don't want to feel polite when I'm writing, and I don't think we should ever feel polite when we're in the theatre or watching drama or reading a story...Satiated, elated, angry, or ecstatic anything and everything else in bewteen. But never polite".

A Birmingham writer raised in the 'Tolkien country' of Hall Green, Victoria worked for Stafford's Heart Productions for playwright Frank Bramwell for four years as a director and script-editor where plays were produced for tour including the Edinburgh Festival.

Grainger is a familiar voice on the radio having worked as a broadcaster for many years, producing travel news for radio stations across the UK including BBC radio and national stations such as TalkSport. Her years on the radio can be seen as influential in her award-winning Kerouac piece, in which her prose talks about her role as 'a voice' and life 'On the Roads' - a tie in with the nature of the competition which was a celebration of Kerouac's seminal novel 'On the Road'.