Alina Oswald is a writer/photographer covering uncon-ventional, inconvenient and sometimes taboo topics that populate human reality and imagination. Alina Oswald has documented the HIV/AIDS and LGBT communities for a decade, and her works have appeared in related publications and art shows. Her books include Vampire Fantasies, a collection of vampire-inspired photography, The Awa-kening..., a poetic photographic collection and Backbone, a collection of images celebrating unsung LGBT and HIV/AIDS heroes. Contact her online at www.alina-arts.com or follow her blog, Unconventional-Expressions of