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Seaford, Sussex

About Vicky

I am a writer, an author and an organisational consultant.  I love to take photographs.
I live near the sea in East Sussex, England, and on Gartan Lake in Donegal, Ireland.  I am a New Yorker, at heart.
These are the things that frame my window on the world:
I was born in Eritrea in East Africa -- my mother was a New Yorker and my father was from Sussex.
I am a feminist and a Catholic.
I love art, the theatre, walking, swimming, driving, cooking, my family and friends in several countries.
I love to laugh and to dance.  I love to travel, to be on the move.
I am fascinated by politics in the UK, Ireland and the US.

I am committed to a systems and complexity paradigm; I love to think, to make connections....
My website aims to showcase my passions and projects, to connect my past, present and future; England, Ireland and New York; writing, consultancy and photography

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Current projects

Writing. Consultancy. Photography.

Writing:  Northern Ireland

Belfast:   Toward A City Without Walls (Colourpoint 2015)

Don't Mention the War:  Exploring Aspects of the Legacy of the Northern Ireland Conflict

For news about my 2025 Belfast peacewalls project and links to my blogs about Northern Ireland :

Photographs 1974-1984

A collection of black & white  photographs taken in New York, Ireland and England during one decade.

Manhattan, circa 1974
Elizabeth Gustafson, my mother

A literary family memoir

Elegy for Echo will be published in Fall/Autumn 2026 as an ebook.

It explores the life and death of my Metropolitan Opera singer grandfather William Gustafson and the impact of his suicide in 1931 on the family he left behind,   and the fascinating stories of my great-grandmother and uncle.

For more information:

Elegy for Echo

Belfast: Toward a City without Walls
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