Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novel; other work has appeared in Northwest Review, Northridge Review, Film Comment, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Five Fingers Review, and n/Oulipo. Place represents indigent sex offenders and sexually violent predators on appeal; her nonfiction book about sex crimes and the morality of guilt is to be published by Other Press. She is a co-founder of Les Figues Press, publisher of the TrenchArt series of experimental literature.