Vivian Sorvall is a playwright and short story writer living in Connecticut. Her short plays have been produced locally and in Colorado. Her full-length "Strindberg's Dollhouse" made the semi-finals for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and received a staged reading in NYC.  She has received an NEH grant for a screenplay adaptation of the historical novel "Giants in the Earth." Once a newspaper reporter and piano teacher, she also takes care of horses and dogs.