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 currently pursuing an Artist Diploma in opera performance at Yale University, where in Spring 2012 she will perform the title role in The Rape of Lucretia. Vivien was born in Colorado and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction has been published in Esopus Magazine.
Photo by Brent Calis.