Vivian Carroll spent twenty-two years as a school counselor, listening to other people's stories and understanding what it takes to survive. She knows what it means to hold someone's truth. She also knows what it costs to live a life worth telling.

Her debut novel, Beautiful Disaster, is the story she spent a lifetime earning. Her first published piece was a humorous short story in The Beachcomber — because laughter is good for everyone.

She lives at the beach near Savannah, Georgia, where she tap-dances, line-dances, and is dancing her way through life. She has also recently learned to paint, and the cover of Beautiful Disaster is a painting of the Finger Lakes, made for her husband, which inspired her to finally get the book published.