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Vivian Lee is a writer and senior editor at Little, Brown. Her booklist includes bestselling authors as well as finalists and winners of the Kirkus Prize, PEN/Faulkner, Stonewall Book Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Southern Book Prize, ASME, ASJA Book Award, Whiting Nonfiction, and others.

Her writing can be found in the Los Angeles Times, Eater, Elle, Catapult, Poets & Writers, and more.

She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Literary Journalism and from the New School University in New York with a MFA in Creative Writing (Non-Fiction). She is a 2018 PW Rising Star Honoree and a 2023 Kundiman Honoree.