Vivienne Plumb was born in Sydney, Australia in 1955. Her father was Australian and her mother a New Zealander. She came to New Zealand in 1974 when she was 19 years old and has remained there since. After originally training as an actor, she first began writing in her early forties.

Plumb is an award-winning playwright, poet and fiction writer, who has been widely anthologised. She has published three collections of poetry and has been the recipient of the Hubert Church Prose Award and the Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award (NZ). She has held many writing residencies, including the NZ Sargeson Fellowship (2001), the University of Iowa International Writing Programme (2004), writer in residence at Massey University, NZ (2006), and the Hong Kong Baptist University (2006).

Most recently, she has been commissioned by the Auckland Theatre Co to adapt her short story 'The Wife Who Spoke Japanese In Her Sleep' to stage.

Vivienne Plumb will read for Cúirt in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday 23 April at 1pm.

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