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THE VANITY PAPERS OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW

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 is currently studying an MSc in English Local History with a focus upon the Social History of Architecture, at Kellogg College. He is also busy writing a book on Leadership Theory.

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

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

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

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 

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. She is published by Varisty Publications Cambridge, The London Magazine, The Oxford Magazine, Loft Books and The Oxford Review of Books. 

rupa@thevanitypapers.com www.rupawood.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 attempting a Masters in Literature and Arts while refreshing her mind with random bits of writing, drawing and photography.

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.

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.

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 an alumnus of Creative Writing at Kellogg College. She is Copenhagen-based.

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.