Vivien Shotwell is the author of Amato Bene, an historical novel about a young English soprano who loved Mozart. It will be published in 2013 by Ballantine Books. A graduate of Williams College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Vivien is also a mezzo-soprano and currently pursuing an Artist Diploma with Yale Opera, where in April 2012 she will perform the title role in The Rape of Lucretia. She has been twice a Regional Finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and has received support for her singing studies from the Canada Council for the Arts. Vivien was born in Colorado and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction has been published in Esopus Magazine.
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