Vivian Clausing writes heart felt stories about complicated families, love, loss, and marginalized characters finding community. Her work has appeared in The Bloomin’ Onion, Bright Fiction Literary Review, Poor Yorick and 10 x 10 Flash Fiction. Her essay Death into Life: A Spirituality of Lay Ecclesial Ministry was published in Emerging from the Vineyard in 2014.
A former lawyer, she has directed a program for women transitioning from incarceration, given seated chair massage to the homeless and advocated for youth and the adults who minister to them. She is a graduate of Stanford’s OWC writing program