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THE VANITY PAPERS OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW

Contributors J - M

J. MENDOZA-WHITE is a bilingual writer and an alumnus of Creative Writing at Oxford University. She sometimes wonders what life without writing would be like, but her mind goes blank.

JAMES BERLINO he has worked as a venture capitalist investing in life sciences companies for the past twenty years. 

JAMES HOLMES studied history at The University of Oxford. A passionate actor and writer of a young adult mystery novel and a children’s book. He, just like the protagonist in his story has also arm-wrestled hard men in bars. @oxford_university_cocktails

JAMES REIDEL is best known for his biography of the poet Weldon Kees, Vanished Act (2003), Daisy Goodwin’s BBC2 documentary Looking for Robinson (1993), which featured Simon Armitage, Kees pieces in Beatdom, and the film Schneewittchen (2024).

JAMIE CAMERON was born in Swansea, Wales and grew up in the East Midlands. His poetry has been published in Anthropocene, Wet Grain, The High Window, Aesthetica Magazine and is forthcoming in Broken Sleep’s Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices. He won the 3rd prize in The London Magazine Poetry Prize, where he now works as an editor. Away from writing, he spends time playing and coaching basketball.

JENNIFER NOLAN is reading for a DPhil in Archaeology at Kellogg. She enjoys exploring museums, stone circles, collecting dusty old tomes and sailing on the open sea.

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JESSE WOODS is an alumnus of Creative Writing at Somerville College. He likes staring at maps and keeping a basketball in the back seat of his car, just in case.

JOANNE MALONE is an alumnus of Educational Assessment at Kellogg College. She really enjoys interesting conversations with friends when she isn't craving thousands of square kilometres of open space.

JOE FOYE is a writer and law student from West Sussex. He’s currently developing his first novel and script, but spends most of his time writing silly limericks.

JOHANNA BÖTTIGER a second year reading English—who was in a rather precarious living situation and writes mainly self-reverentially about the utter chaos that is her life @johannaboettiger

JOHN DELANEY publications include chapbooks and collections Waypoints (2017), Twenty Questions (2019), Delicate Arch (2022), Galápagos (2023), Nile (2024). He lives in Port Townsend, WA. www.johnmdelaney.com

JOSH COBLER is a second BA student in law. Before coming to Oxford, he studied anthropology in California. Outside of academia, he loves staying engaged in social justice issues, traveling to new places, trying new foods, day dreaming, and writing.

J. MENDOZA-WHITE is a bilingual writer and an alumnus of Creative Writing at Oxford University. She sometimes wonders what life without writing would be like, but her mind goes blank.

JAMES BERLINO he has worked as a venture capitalist investing in life sciences companies for the past twenty years. 

JAMES HOLMES studied history at The University of Oxford. A passionate actor and writer of a young adult mystery novel and a children’s book. He, just like the protagonist in his story has also arm-wrestled hard men in bars. @oxford_university_cocktails

JAMES REIDEL is best known for his biography of the poet Weldon Kees, Vanished Act (2003), Daisy Goodwin’s BBC2 documentary Looking for Robinson (1993), which featured Simon Armitage, Kees pieces in Beatdom, and the film Schneewittchen (2024).

JAMIE CAMERON was born in Swansea, Wales and grew up in the East Midlands. His poetry has been published in Anthropocene, Wet Grain, The High Window, Aesthetica Magazine and is forthcoming in Broken Sleep’s Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices. He won the 3rd prize in The London Magazine Poetry Prize, where he now works as an editor. Away from writing, he spends time playing and coaching basketball.

JENNIFER NOLAN is reading for a DPhil in Archaeology at Kellogg. She enjoys exploring museums, stone circles, collecting dusty old tomes and sailing on the open sea.

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JESSE WOODS is an alumnus of Creative Writing at Somerville College. He likes staring at maps and keeping a basketball in the back seat of his car, just in case.

JOANNE MALONE is an alumnus of Educational Assessment at Kellogg College. She really enjoys interesting conversations with friends when she isn't craving thousands of square kilometres of open space.

JOE FOYE is a writer and law student from West Sussex. He’s currently developing his first novel and script, but spends most of his time writing silly limericks.

JOHANNA BÖTTIGER a second year reading English—who was in a rather precarious living situation and writes mainly self-reverentially about the utter chaos that is her life @johannaboettiger

JOHN DELANEY publications include chapbooks and collections Waypoints (2017), Twenty Questions (2019), Delicate Arch (2022), Galápagos (2023), Nile (2024). He lives in Port Townsend, WA. www.johnmdelaney.com

JOSH COBLER is a second BA student in law. Before coming to Oxford, he studied anthropology in California. Outside of academia, he loves staying engaged in social justice issues, traveling to new places, trying new foods, day dreaming, and writing.

LAURA THEIS writes in her second language. Her work appears in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, The Irish Times, Poetry Birmingham, Magma, Rattle, Mslexia, Berlin Lit, etc. Accolades include the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, AM Heath Prize, Mogford Prize, and a Forward Prize nomination. Her debut how to extricate yourself, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, was nominated for the Elgin Award and won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. A Spotter’s Guide To Invisible Things received the Live Canon Collection Prize, and the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. Her latest publications are Introduction To Cloud Care (Broken Sleep Books) and her forthcoming children’s debut Poems From A Witch’s Pocket (Emma Press).

LAUREN GAPPER is a Creative Writing MSt student from Kellogg College, Oxford. She is predominantly a screenwriter but dabbles in prose fiction and occasionally poetry. She spends equal time between Oxford and Lincolnshire, the latter being a source of inspiration for much of her writing and films.

LISA BLACKWELL is a writer and performer. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in journals, anthologies and online, and her first prose poetry chapbook, ‘How it will happen’, was the Three Trees Portfolio Award winner 2022 (published by Maytree Press) @lisablackwellwrite

LUA VALINO DE JONG is a lyrical prose writer. They were the chair of the Literature Society at University College Roosevelt, and editor of the Fiction & Poetry column of the magazine Tabula RASA. Beyond writing, their interests include history, as well as queer and feminist studies. They are currently doing a Masters in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford. @lua_jong

LUCY POOK is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose media dance between drawing, painting, poetry, stand-up comedy and performance art, to create a holistic practice that evokes the Gombrich stance of “There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.” @pookpayingattention

MACIEK SATURNOFF DUSZYŃSKI studies Diplomacy (MSt) at Kellogg College. He is published in Courrier International, The Columbia Missourian, Global Journalism Ethics, Indigo, Newsweek, Polityka, Ozon and Wprost and is a member of the Fencing Club.

MADELEINE LAMM is an alumnus of the Creative Writing MSt. Her poetry has been published in Chargé d'affaires, Wet Grain, Marin Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

MADHAV CHOWDRY is an orthopaedic surgery resident, passionate about learning, teaching and discovering. @madhavmanu @dr-madhav-chowdhry @bone_afied

MAI SERHAN is an alumnus of Creative Writing at Regent’s Park College. Her writing is preoccupied with the sad and the depressing when she’s actually, generally, a happy person. 

MARGARITA GOKUN SILVER is a NYT, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Oprah-published essayist who is an alumnus of the MSt in Creative Writing in Oxford and is trying her hand at fiction. Her essay collection I Named My Dog Pushkin came out in 2021 with Hachette.

MARY JANE HOLMES is an alumnus of Kellogg College, is embroiled in a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK. mary-janeholmes.com

MAREE JACOB is an avid reader, enthusiastic writer and general practitioner based in the east of England. 

MAY HO trained as a designer, an archaeologist, and a sustainability leader. She is reading Applied Landscape Archaeology at Harris Manchester and resides in London she has written for VoltEd, Varsity, Cherwell, and Oxford Blue.

MEESHA WILLIAMS is an alumnus of Creative Writing at Oxford. You can read some of her other recent writing in The Isis Magazine and Mistake House Magazine.

MEGAN CHESTER is an alumnus of the MSt in Creative Writing at Somerville College. She can usually be found reading a book, rowing a boat, riding a bike, or using too much alliteration.

METRA MITCHELL is an American painter whose work has been exhibited internationally. Metra Mitchell’s work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally. Her work has been published in Juxtapoz Magazine, St. Louis Riverfront Times, All She Makes Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, All the Arts Magazine, Create! Magazine & LUXE Interior + Design Magazine. 

NUR TURKMANI is a writer in Beirut. Her work has been published in The Adroit Journal, London Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, and others. Otherwise she writes too much about fruits and old lovers.

OLIVER HARMAN studies a DPhil Sustainable Urban Development at Kellogg College.

PAULA CHAPPELL is an art dealer and gallery owner in Kent. @chappell_contemporary 

RAPHAËL RIVIÈRE is an alumnus of Evidence Based Medicine at Kellogg College. He is concurrently an anaesthesiology resident at the University of Toronto. @Raphael.nahar x: @RNRiviere

REBECCA PEARSON is a writer and editor based in Oxford. Graduating from Loughborough University in 2023, she is currently studying for her MSt in English (1830-1914) at Oxford. Her poems have appeared on the Overhear App and in Loughborough’s student magazines. @wordsbyrebecca 

RICK LONGLEY whilst writing under the pen name of Skyler Clarke, in his teenage years, wrote around 300 poems. He wrote poems in Paris, in Moscow, and in Buenos Aires. After a seven-year hiatus, under his (almost) real name, Rick shares his poetry with joyful trepidation. Perhaps, in a former life, Rick would have been a full-time poet-adventurer-extraordinaire, earning his keep by fencing with (hypothetically) rapiers and (more realistically) with words. For now, he crunches numbers for a film company. Wrestling with his arithmophobia, Rick finds joy in the work as a loyal servant of Christ Jesus. ‘[…] God had greater things in store if they would only learn to put him first’.

ROLAND FISCHER-VOUSDEN lives and works between London and Newcastle. He runs the arts organisation SET.

RUPA WOOD is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the philosophy of miraculous and commonplace magic. Her publications include Varsity Publications Cambridge, The London Magazine, The Oxford Magazine, Loft Books and The Oxford Review of Books. rupa@thevanitypapers.com

SANDEEP KUMAR MISHRA is an artist, an author, a teacher and an editor. He has published 15 books, translated into more than 20 international languages, shortlisted for more than 50 international literary and arts awards and has been published in all six continents inhabited by humans. www.sandeepkumarmishra.com

S. RUPSHA MITRA is a student from India with a penchant for everything creative. Her works can be found in London Reader, Science for the people magazine, Dhaka Tribune. 

SARA FARNWORTH is studying Applied Landscape Archaeology from Campion Hall, where powerful inspiration is around every corner.

SARASWATI NAGPAL is an Indian poet, writer of fantasy and sci-fi, and a classical dancer. Her graphic novels are feminist retellings of epic Indian myths. She is published in The Atlantic, Atlanta Review, Acropolis Journal, Tipton, Dust Poetry & other journals. Saraswati has a forthcoming chapbook with Black Bough Poetry, Wales. Saraswati has choreographed and performed for stages and films. For two decades, she has been a teacher of creative writing and literature to teenagers. @saraswatinagpal

SEBASTIAN KOGA is a neurosurgeon in New Orleans. He understands people from the inside out. He studied poetry at Oxford graduating with an MSt in Creative Writing.

SHELLEY BROOKS is a NYC-based graduate of the Oxford Mst creative writing program. Her theatrical work as a writer and performer has appeared at The Tank, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, The Vino Theater, and The Metropolitan Room. Her criticism has been published in Paper Magazine, Slate, Roger Ebert, Reverse Shot, and more, and an upcoming piece will soon be published in The Forward. @ohlookitsshelleybrooks

SUMANA KHAN’s unpublished crime novel “The Good Twin” won third place and the Readers’ Choice award in the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2020. Her short stories have been published in Writing Magazine and have received recognition in various competitions including the 2023 Bath Short Story Award, 2019 Royal Society of Literature’s VS Pritchett short story competition; 2016 Just Write competition; 2016 Manchester Short Story competition. She holds a MLitt in Creative Writing and a PhD in Psychology.

SYLEE GORE is studying new uses of photography in poetry. Her artist chapbook, Even Still, was published by Sampson Low of London in 2021.

TALLULAH HAWLEY is a senior at Sarah Lawrence College and in her second year as the Editor-in-Chief for their student newspaper, The Phoenix. Last school year, she studied at Wadham College, reading social psychology and anthropology, and served as Deputy Profile Editor at the Oxford Student. She is from St. Louis, Missouri, which has prompted Google searches from multiple id-checking Tesco cashiers to verify that it is indeed a real state.

TEESTA DAYAL is a writer and photographer who believes that a vintage camera is not just a tool, but a doorway to the past, summoning vitality to memory. @teestafilm_

THEMBE MVULA is a South African writer and poet; an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Barbican Young Poets and the inaugural Obsidian Foundation retreat. She self-published her debut pamphlet, We that Wither Beneath, in 2019.

TINA JUUL MØLLER is a Copenhagen-based poet, learner, raging feminist.

TOM RALSTON is a student of the philosophy of language at Kellogg College, with a particular interest in Nothing and Not.

TOM SANDERS is a writer and creator of Weird Words. speakweirdwords.squarespace.com

WENDY ALLEN is an MA Creative Writing graduate. She has been published by Broken Sleep, Ambit and Poetry Wales.

WESLEY LAM likes to tell stories through photography, and to see beauty in the world around us. @lamonjuice 

KATE ZIPPEL is a Cherokee Native American whose people come from the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. She is studying for a DPhil in Evidenced-Based Health Care at Kellogg College and a Professional Certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She works as a General Practitioner in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australia.