Vivian Wagner

I'm a writer, author, and editor who splits her time between Alaska and an Airstream somewhere in the Lower 48.

My writing focuses on business, technology, travel, food, books, music, crafts, creative nonfiction, and poetry. My work has appeared in Gastro Obscura, Alaska Magazine, The Atlantic, Narratively, O: The Oprah Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Kenyon Review Online, Zone 3, The Ilanot Review, Silk Road Review, The Pinch, and other publications. I'm the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington, 2010); a full-length poetry collection, Raising (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2018); and several poetry chapbooks, including The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books, 2017), Making (Origami Poems Project, 2018), Curiosities (Unsolicited Press, 2018), Spells of the Apocalypse (Thirty West Publishing, 2020), and Birch Songs (Origami Poems Project, 2022). I also provide copy editing, technical editing, and book development services.

I have a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, specializing in modern American literature and culture, and I'm an associate professor emerita of English at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio.

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