Vivian Pham is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist, and poet from southwestern Sydney. In high school she wrote a novel called The Coconut Children, which was published in March 2020 by Penguin Random House.  In 2021 she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists and she won the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Vivian was the 2023 DVAN-Millay New Author and the 2024 UTS Writer in Residence. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Philosophy and Creative Writing, and is currently adapting The Coconut Children for stage and screen.