Vivienne Plumb | |
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 Plumb in 2006 | |
| Born | 4 April 1955 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | New Zealander / Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and editor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Wollongong |
| Thesis | Hitchhiking: the travelling female body (2012) |
Vivienne Christiana Gracia Plumb (born 4 April 1955) is New Zealand poet, playwright, fiction writer, and editor.[1]
Plumb is of both New Zealand and Australian heritage.[1] Born in Sydney, Australia, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and a Master of Arts in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has earned a Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) degree from the University of Wollongong, Australia.[2] Her 2012 doctoral thesis, titled Hitchhiking: the travelling female body, was in two parts: a collection of short fiction, The Glove Box and Other Stories; and an accompanying exegesis.[3]
Plumb originally trained in acting and performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. After being accepted into Bill Manhire's Original Composition course in 1990 at Victoria University of Wellington, she began writing.[4] In 1993, Plumb and several other women playwrights (Lorae Parry, Fiona Samuel, Jean Betts, and Cathy Downes) formed WOPPA (Women's Professional Playwrights Association) and established The Women's Play Press.[5]
She currently resides in Wellington, New Zealand.
Plumb has received numerous awards for her fiction, poetry, and drama.
