Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-founder of Les Figues Press. She is author of DIES: A SENTENCE (2006), La Medusa (2008), NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS, co-authored with Robert Fitterman (2009), Statement of Facts (2010), and Boycott Project (2013). Her nonfiction title, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law (2010, 2015), was recently released in paperback. Place is a regular contributor to X-tra Art Quarterly, and has lectured and performed internationally.