V A Shannon

Vivienne was born in Southampton, UK and now lives just north of London.  She has previously lived in Belgium, on a Greek island, and in the USA where she studied painting at Paier School of Art in Hamden, CT. When she returned to the UK, Vivienne attended the University of Kent at Canterbury, where she achieved a First Class Honours degree in Visual and Performed Arts – a course combining English Literature, creative writing and History of Art. Following that she trained as a barrister at BPP School of Law and worked for one of London’s leading libel firms. She has experience in legal publishing, as an editor and proof reader, and has also followed a secondary route as a teacher, tutoring students in English Literature and teaching Legal English to international lawyers.​