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name: Vivien Shotwell
about: Vivien Shotwell’s VIENNA NOCTURNE (Random House, 2014) has been praised by The Washington Post as “intoxicating,” and by Chatelaine as “an exquisite read.” Vivien received her Artist Diploma in opera from the Yale School of Music, and was awarded the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize. She studied music and English at Williams College, in Massachusetts, and received an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Vivien writes and sings in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vienna Nocturne will be translated into ten languages.