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THE VANITY PAPERS OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW

Contributors N - Z

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.