10 Facts About Siobhan Vivian

Siobhan Vivian was born on January 12,1979 and is a bestselling American novelist, editor, and screenwriter.

Siobhan Vivian was born in New York City on January 12,1979.

At a young age, Vivian moved to Rutherford, New Jersey where she went to school and often got in trouble for sneaking out and not doing her homework.

Siobhan Vivian moved to Philadelphia after high school where she attended the University of the Arts and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Writing for Film and Television.

Siobhan Vivian then moved back to New York City where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing: Children's Literature from The New School.

Siobhan Vivian's most recent solo book, The List, inspired by true events at a high school in New Jersey, was published in 2012 and earned the ALA 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults, was a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was a best seller in France.

All of Siobhan Vivian's individually written books were published by Push, an imprint of Scholastic.

In 2012, Siobhan Vivian published Burn for Burn the first book in the Burn for Burn Trilogy with fellow young adult author, Jenny Han.

In November 2019, Siobhan Vivian faced criticism for her tweets regarding Brooke Nelson, a college student who was mentioned in her local newspaper as saying she thought that author Sarah Dessen's YA novels were not suitable for the Common Read program run by Northern State University, Aberdeen.

Additionally, Siobhan Vivian is a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.