Omnia Vanitas Review Omnia Vanitas Review is a delicate mixture of Féminine Écriture, New Narrative, and Clit Lit. She enjoys explicit descriptions of sex written in white ink. Deflowering language. The playful touching of intertextuality. Deliberately elusive linguistic weavings. Like legs. Multiple orgasms with multiple climaxes. Words pregnant with child. With quintuplets. Words wet with formlessness. Esoterica. Etcetera. If you ever wish to speak with her, even if it’s only to ask her a few questions about your sex life or watering geraniums, she would be happy to respond. omnia.vanitas.review@gmail.com Oleander Underhill Oleander Underhill was born in Maine. She grew up by the ocean and pulls her stories from the sea. Catherine Borders Catherine Borders has fallen in love many times but never like this. She likes the idea of writing that on paper and folding it into a rose of some sort. She also likes the idea of promoting the other side of literature. She admires Hélène Cixous, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, David Markson, Roland Barthes, Franz Schubert, and Lisa Simpson. Currently, she writes inside a house without any corners but can also be found packing and unpacking boxes, all of which are heavy to the touch. In addition to co-founding Omnia Vanitas Review, she has written a book entitled A Suburb of Monogamy which she considers a loose translation of A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes. http://eidetictraces.wordpress.com/ Deliquescence Meg Nafziger Meg Nafziger has a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Chicago. Cover Art Lily Robert-Foley Lily Robert-Foley was born in San Francisco in the later part of the last century to an acupuncturist and a musician/painter. Her studies can be characterized as having a specific interest in language. Mostly, she writes, travels, and makes radical linguistic translation devices known as machines. Her work has appeared in bathhouse, digital artifact, a s l o n g a s i t a k e s and Vivaparous Blenny, among other places. Sometimes her work appears on walls. She also transcribed and annotated The North Georgia Gazette, a newspaper written on board the H.M.S. Hecla during the early part of the 19th Century (Green Lantern Press, 2009). Selections from her graphemachines project will be published in the coming year as part of the Xerolage series, a division of Xexoxial Editions. Currently, she resides in Paris where she is pursuing a doctorate in General and Comparative Literature at the University of Paris VIII. Next Time Won’t You Sing With Me? The North Georgia Gazette kristin cerda kristin cerda is a hybrid writer, new media artist, and native Texan living in San Francisco, CA. She holds a BA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School and an MFA from CalArts. Her work has appeared in Sprawl, Chronometry, Interstice, and her hypertext mischief lives at www.wretchedsymphony.com. {Geekcore for life..} { measurable angle [is to (meaning as periphery) is] to tide } (PDF file) Jane Agnes Quinn Jane Agnes Quinn was born and raised in Texas. She lives in Texas. Three Studies for a Figure Laced and Unlaced Scott Hess An award-winning journalist, Scott’s debut novel "Bergdorf Boys" is based on his early whirlwind years as editor of a gay magazine when he discovered both the scandalously uber-rich and a seedy hyper-partying underbelly. He is a 2009 MFA graduate of The New School, where he worked with novelists Dale Peck, Darcey Steinke and Helen Schulman. Scott’s fiction has appeared in the Thema Literary Journal and he is a contributor to various national magazines, including Genre, OutTraveler and Instinct. He has been the gay section editor for Harper Collins’ Access NY Guide Book for the past two years. He has written two screenplays, his latest Blood of Saints is about a serial killer recreating the grisly executions of Catholic Saints. http://www.bergdorfboys.com Bergdorf Boys Chandra Smith Chandra Smith is living and working in LA in the vast. There are large vats of film and tape and she likes being caught coddled in the web and wrought useful. She changes her name and her medium and still isn’t sure “screenwriting is not writing” is true. She’s told these days there is poetry in film in poetry. She tends to be a believer. bright nor dirty bound (poem on a blackberry) Rebecca Serle Rebecca Serle is a writer living and working in NYC. She is the founder of Nurturing Narratives, an organization that brings storytelling and narrative building workshops to young children. Rebecca holds a MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and a BA in English from The University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in SLICE Magazine, The Ampersand Review, The Raleigh Quarterly and Twelve Stories among others. She is an avid fan of yoga, the written word in all its forms, and, of course, New York. http://nurturingnarratives.blogspot.com/ A Diagram of the Body Caroline Picard Caroline Picard is a visual artist, the Founding Director of The Green Lantern Gallery & Press, and a Co-Editor for the literary podcast The Parlor (www. theparlorreads.com). Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including the Phildelphia Independant, NewCity, Lumpen, MAKE Magazine, the Chicago Art Journal Review and Proximity Magazine. http://greenlanternpress.wordpress.com The Man in the Hospital Katherine Cox Katherine "Kat" Cox is a girl from Albuquerque who went out east for schooling. After she got an MFA from the New School in New York, she went home to New Mexico to try her hand as a freelance writer. She currently writes non-fiction and marketing materials for various clients by day, and erotic fiction for other clients at night. She also writes marketing materials as a volunteer for the New Mexico House Rabbit Society, and loves every minute of it. Sandy and the Corset Michael Sidman Michael Sidman is in the beginning stages of becoming a much-beloved writer, whose books will be made into some of the most important films in modern American cinema. He will also own a farm-cum-culinary institute-cum-world-class restaurant, where he will practice the fine arts of Italian shoe making, calligraphy, and kosher butchery. Kosher Meat SarahS Sarahs dabbles in too many creative disciplines but has trained extensively as a theatre artist. Recent endeavors have included cartography and investigations of cultural syncretism in performance. She currently lives in Johannesburg where she is pursuing a Masters degree. She has been trying to shirk her last name since childhood. Self-Portrait with C. A Map Circadies "From the desert to the shore, circadies dreams and plays into the feedback loop." Training Bra Matthew Dexter Matthew Dexter is an American anomaly living in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He writes novels, memoirs, poetry, journalism articles, short stories of literary fiction, short stories of narrative nonfiction, and everything else in between. When Matthew is not writing he enjoys life by the ocean; beautiful beaches, breathtaking views, reading, and being inspired. But never candlelit dinners on the beach. He’s afraid of Pirates. Crocodile Tears Brian Burton Brian K. Burton enjoys the essential -ings of life: writing, reading, drinking, smoking, sleeping, and loving. He is a native Chicagoan who now resides in Falls Church, VA. Cooze Ryan Block Ryan Block is sweating profusely having just escaped from a torrid love affair. He played with fire and he then got burned. He’s currently cooling his heels, taking it easy, re-evaluating his life, and intends to turn over a new leaf. Any day now. Time Given Over…