Aviva’s poems, reviews and literary essays have been widely published in magazines and anthologies. Poetry commissions include The British Museum for Refugee Week and Bradford Literature Festival for the Gustav Klimt centenary celebrations. She has also performed at the Hay Festival, Jewish Book Week at Kings Place, Poetry International at the Southbank Centre and at numerous other festivals and events nationally and internationally. She has been Poet in Residence both at the Jewish Museum in London and for The Separated Child Foundation, and has mentored for creative development initiatives run by Exiled Writers Ink and the Poetry Ambassadors Scheme. In April 2022, Aviva curated the Poets for Ukraine fundraising gala which featured Harriet Walter, Meera Syal and Nicholas Hytner, alongside British poets including Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and Imtiaz Dharker, showcasing work by Ukrainian poets from the frontline and the diaspora.

Aviva’s sequence about clearing her mother’s home was chosen for the Poetry School / Nine Arches Press Primers prize for emerging voices in 2017 and was published in Primers Volume Three in May 2018. In December 2018 she received an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to complete her forthcoming first full collection, We Sigh For Houses, which was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 poetry programme in August 2020. Her translation of The Eighth Crossing, by Afghan poet Suhrab Sirat, was published in January 2021. She is the resident poetry expert for BBC Radio 4 series ‘On Form’, presented by Andrew McMillan.

Aviva is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine. She has lectured on modern Jewish culture at the University of Roehampton, the London School of Jewish Studies and JW3. Aviva is a regular contributor to courses and programs for the British Library, the British Museum and BBC Radio 4. Aviva also works as a freelance curator and producer for many of the major London arts institutions, and has recently worked on projects and exhibitions for Bethlem Museum of the Mind, The Royal Academy and Tate Exchange.