Vivien Lei

Vivien Lei has been a poet first and foremost for most of her life. She loves words. The first poem she ever wrote, at age 12, placed first for her age category in the Auckland-wide Montana Poetry Day competition that year. Celebrated New Zealand writer Iain Sharp has described Vivien as “a born poet” with “succinct, graceful, evocative and musical” writing. She has since over the years been published in numerous local publications including New Zealand’s largest student magazine Craccum. On the side, she is the Head English teacher at NCEA Campus and is halfway through a Law conjoint degree.