Vivian Ewing is a writer, reporter and editor and a regular contributor to the New York Times. Her reporting has also appeared in Glamour, The Vineyard Gazette and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and is working on a novel about motherhood.
Vivian received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, where she taught fiction and composition courses as a Graduate Teaching Fellow.
She has worked as an editor and curator. She guest-edited issue nine of Papersafe Magazine and edited Enter Rural Scene, an anthology of art and writing.
Her work has received support from PEN America, the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, Mary Sky and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Vivian was a 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow.
As a writer, Vivian is inspired by the gossip that fuels small towns, the oldest narratives and legends, and the places where these stories intersect.
She is also a birth doula.
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Experience
Regular Contributor, The New York Times
Communications Assistant, ProPublica
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon
News Assistant, The New York Times
Copy Editor, Vineyard Gazette
Writing Tutor and Academic Coach, Maine College of Art
Press
Book of the Week: Selected by Odette England, The Quarry, Photographs by Madeleine Morlet, Short story by Vivian Ewing, Photo-Eye, 2022
”What makes The Quarry special is how Morlet and Ewing mine the aches and dreads of being a teenage girl and merge them with the exquisiteness of desire and freedom and the costs thereof.” —Odette England
Visceral Revelations: An interview with emerging author Vivian Ewing, Teeth Magazine, 2020
”Vivian Ewing is an emerging writer from New England. I stumbled across her short story “The Harvest” by accident while investigating a book press based on Peaks Island, Maine. There is a specific feeling that goes with making such a rare discovery, of finding a new artist at the start of their career, it reminds me of the adrenaline rush that comes three moves ahead in a game of chess right before you steal the queen.” – Madeleine Morlet, Teeth Magazine
Pearls of Portland, The Phoenix, 2018
The Kindling Fund Award, Vivian Ewing, 2016
Lines of Sight exhibition review, What Will You Remember?, 2016
"Vivian Ewing’s photographs in “Dry Grass Crackling” stem from a letter she found stapled to a telephone pole that began, “Was it beautiful to lie in bed and see the ceiling on fire through a smoldering cloud of ash?” From that note, a rush of questions incited her imagination, spurring a richly imagined storyline and photographs evoking dream-like snippets of the escaping young man’s physical sensations and memories. Her abbreviated visualizations capture light and isolate her subjects in a way that conveys empathy and longing." – Elin Spring, What Will You Remember?
Dropped, Vivian Ewing, The Latent Image, 2016
Vivian Ewing, Don/Dean Blog, 2015