Victoria Elizabeth "Vicki" Hearne (February 13, 1946 – August 21, 2001) was an American author, philosopher, poet, animal trainer, and scholar of literary criticism and linguistics.
She subsequently spent more than twenty-five years studying animal behavior as a horse and dog trainer.
She received a 1992 award for outstanding literary achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In the mid-1980s, she was offered an appointment at Yale, inducing a move from California to Connecticut.
Before she died she was an author of many beautiful pieces of work including; "News from the Dogs", "Young Dog, Grass and More", and "Trained Man and Dog" She died at the age of 55 of lung cancer at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, attended by her daughter Colleen Lehrman from a previous marriage, her husband Robert Tragesser and her brother, James Hearne.