Vivian Lee is a writer and senior editor at Little, Brown. Her booklist includes national and New York Times bestselling authors as well as finalists and winners of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” PEN Literary Awards, the Kirkus Prize, Young Lions Fiction Award, VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, Stonewall Book Award, Lambda Literary Award, Publishing Triangle Award, Southern Book Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASJA Book Award, the Whiting Nonfiction Grant, and more.

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.