Omnia Vanitas Review is a delicate mixture of Féminine Écriture, New Narrative, and Clit Lit. We enjoy explicit descriptions of sex written in white ink. Deflowering language. Multiple orgasms with multiple climaxes. The playful touching of intertextuality. Deliberately elusive linguistic weavings. Words who slow dance with Aphasia and flirt with Amnesia. Words wet with formlessness. Words pregnant with child. With twins, with quintuplets. Esoterica. Etcetera. Erotica. Though we consider ourselves an erotica magazine, we also interpret “erotica” rather loosely. We think of the act of writing—words penetrating the void, pen piercing paper—as an erotic endeavor, and though some of our submissions are transparently risqué, we can’t think of anything more racy than the pure desire to write. If you ever wish to speak with us, about our project, any of the individual pieces, or for any other reason, please, don’t hesitate to contact us at: omnia.vanitas.review@gmail.com         Catherine Borders began Omnia Vanitas Review to create a florilegia: a space for another side of literature; a place for experimental, cross-generic literary theory; a home for poetic misfits. A great deal of her own work can be found here, as well as her blog, Eidetic Traces, and other esteemed literary journals. She is the author of the forthcoming novel, A Suburb of Monogamy, which is part fantasy, part fact, part translation, part theory. She greatly admires Hélène Cixous, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, David Markson, Roland Barthes, Franz Schubert, and Lisa Simpson. Currently, she lives somewhere between the Twin Cities, New York, and Chicago, and can always be found packing and unpacking boxes, all of which are heavy to the touch. http://eidetictraces.wordpress.com/ Deliquescence Oleander Underhill was born in Maine. She grew up by the ocean and pulls her stories from the sea. The Amber Curtains The Spring Lily Robert-Foley was born in San Francisco in the later part of the last century to an acupuncturist and a musician/painter. Mostly, she writes, travels, and makes radical linguistic translation devices known as machines. Her creative and scholarly work has appeared in various online and print journals including bathhouse, critiphoria, angelhouse and Mad Hatter Review. Selections from her graphemachines project will be published in the coming year as part of the Xerolage series, a division of Xexoxial Editions. Before joining Omnia Vanitas Review, she was assistant editor of the Green Lantern Press in Chicago where she transcribed and annotated The North Georgia Gazette (Green Lantern Press, 2009). Currently, she resides in Paris where she organizes a reading series, teaches English at the Université DesCartes, and 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 (excerpt) Link to buy The North Georgia Gazette         Meg Nafziger has a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Chicago. Cover Art 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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…