Vivienne Stanton is a Sydney-based freelance journalist and writer. She specialises in writing about travel and other cultures, particularly Latin America, after a five-year stint living in Buenos Aires and Mexico City.

She has contributed articles to National Geographic Traveler and Esquire in Latin America, Marie Claire Australia, Australian Gourmet Traveler, Ninemsn, Concierge.com, Australian Travel + Leisure, Time Out Guide to Mexico City, The West Australian Newspaper’s Weekend Magazine, Inside Mexico and Life & Style. She has also published short fiction in HEAT, an Australian literary magazine.

In her travels, she has met descendants of a failed Australian Utopianist colony in Paraguay, women refugees from Colombia’s drug war who built a city with their own hands, train-jumping Central American migrants on a deathly journey to the United States through Mexico, and teenagers growing up in Nezahualcoyotl, one of Mexico City’s original slums. She also learned to salsa dance in Cuba, and is still attempting to polish her tango skills. 

She is currently working on a book project as part of a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney.