victoria Montes

Author’s Credits Victoria Montes is an army veteran and worked as a staff writer for The Tehachapi News and Bakersfield Californian. She has won short story contests in both the Foreign Service Journals and at the Kern County Writers Festival. She traveled to Afghanistan as a photo-journalist in 2008 to cover the war, appeared on television Channel 23 and made several guest appearances on KNZR 1560 radio. She made a short film called “A Soldier’s Story” at Met Film School and has attended New York Film School. In her new novel, “A Perfect World,” protagonist navy veteran Karen Fisher returns from Afghanistan, hiding scars, and secures a safe job as a teacher until her school is shot up. She survives but escapes behind a bottle. When she wraps her car around a tree, she is kidnapped and recruited by Department G, an underground anti-terrorist organization. In Department G she is forced to act against her fear, has a passionate love affair with the leader, the sole survivor of SEAL Team 6, and ultimately must decide if she do what she must as an anti-terrorist fighter. Victoria was inspired to write this story as she grappled with issues of war and violence as a school teacher and a veteran.