Vivian Conan is a writer, librarian, and IT business analyst who lives in Manhattan. A native New Yorker, she grew up in a large Greek-Jewish clan in Brooklyn, graduated from Brooklyn College, and holds master’s degrees from Pratt Institute and Baruch College. 

Her work has appeared in Psychotherapy.net, The New York Times, New York, Lilith, Narratively, Cleaver, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, West Side Rag, Next Avenue, and Ducts. 

She received a 2007 fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2019 Simon Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association. The audiobook of her memoir, Losing the Atmosphere, was a 2021 Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Press Award and a 2021 Finalist for the Independent Audiobook Awards.

Vivian sings with the Peace of Heart Choir, which performs free for communities in need, and has mentored teenage writers as a volunteer with Girls Write Now.