Vivian Montgomery

I am a harpsichordist and accordionist who writes. My writing centers around memory, being an uneasy transplant, living and teaching music, excavation of long-buried women musicians (one particular historical fiction project), my mother, and Judaism. My personal essays have been published in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Bluestem, Ligeia, Adanna, Chautauqua Review, Jabberwock Review, MERVOX, Shark Reef (upcoming) and in the anthology “Mother Reader” issued by Seven Stories Press. My story “Immersion” has received a Writers Digest Prize for Spiritual Writing, and was a finalist for New Letters’ Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction. I am a brooding walker and mother, feeling her way with the help of words spilled onto the page. I've been a member of an informal writers group in the past and also have a regular exchange of work with another writer friend but I'd like to have a more consistent and diverse group that reads one another's writing, asks questions, and finds affinity where it exists.