Vivienne Christiana Gracia Plumb (born 4 April 1955) is a New Zealand poet, playwright, fiction writer, and editor.

She has earned a Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) degree from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

[2] Her 2012 doctoral thesis, titled Hitchhiking: the travelling female body, was in two parts: a collection of short fiction, The Glove Box and Other Stories; and an accompanying exegesis.

[3] Plumb originally trained in acting and performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

After being accepted into Bill Manhire's Original Composition course in 1990 at Victoria University of Wellington, she began writing.