Bianca Vivion Brooks is a writer, artist, and designer from East Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Los Angeles and raised between Atlanta and Oakland, Brooks was marked from an early age as an imaginative storyteller and critical thinker.

At fourteen, Brooks became the youngest news correspondent to National Public Radio, where she wrote weekly commentaries for the show All Things Considered. At 16, she was chosen to head NPR’s youth news desk at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. At 17, she became the youngest journalist ever nominated for the California Journalism Award for excellence in radio reporting. At 18 years old, Brooks went on to become the youngest contracted opinion writer to the New York Times, and at 21, the youngest ever New York Times writer published in print.

In 2018, Brooks graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelors of Arts in human rights and economics. She now works full time as an artist and media consultant at VIVION CO., creating and designing under the moniker ‘Bianca Vivion’ (her first and middle name) as an ode to her grandmother Vivion, whose life inspires a great deal of her writings on woman and girlhood. Although her primary medium is writing, Brooks works in an array of other media ranging from poetry to painting. She also host a weekly advice and culture podcast called ASK VIV and is set to release a talk show web series called GENERATIONAL ANXIETY later this year.

Brooks welcomes the opportunity to create on any platform which welcomes critical dialogue and intellectual honesty, as this is her foremost artistic imperative. She is currently working on a memoir featuring a collection of essays entitled Swimming Backwards: Stories of a Girl Who Read the Fine Print. Bianca lives in New York, New York and can be reached here.