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Vivian Conan

Vivian Conan is a writer, librarian, and IT business analyst who lives in Manhattan. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Lilith (award-winning essay), Narratively, Cleaver, and Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. She received a 2007 fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2019 Simon Rockower […]

Vivian Conan is a writer, librarian, and IT business analyst who lives in Manhattan. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Lilith (award-winning essay), Narratively, Cleaver, and Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. 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. Her memoir about healing from mental illness is Losing the Atmosphere. The audiobook was a finalist for the 2021 Independent Press Award and the 2021 Independent Audiobook Awards. Learn more at VivianConan.com.