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Vivian Lee is a writer and senior editor at Little, Brown. Her booklist includes Matthew Salesses' The Sense of Wonder and Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear (PEN/Faulkner Finalist), Viet Dinh's After Disasters (PEN/Faulkner Finalist), and Jimin Han’s The Apology.

Her writing can be found in The Los Angeles Times, Eater, ELLE.com, 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. Originally from Los Angeles, she now resides in Queens.