Vivien is a local author and freelance writer, living in Uxbridge. She is a past winner of the annual Mail on Sunday ‘Best Opening to a Novel’ competition, beating more than 5000 others to the prize, and reached the shortlist again three years later. She has also had around 170 short stories and 250 articles published in a variety of U.K. magazines.
Vivien has written eight women’s contemporary novels, all commercially published in either paperback or e-book formats. She is a fellow of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists (SWWJ), a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) and a reader for its New Writers Scheme. She is also a creative writing tutor, previously teaching Adult Education creative writing classes for the London Borough of Hillingdon, and more recently running courses at the Swanwick Writers Summer School in Derbyshire.