Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novel which Brian Evenson calls “an extravagant and ferocious book, a real and uncompromising marvel,” and poet Susan McCabe describes as "humbling and beyond paraphrase, both mythic and contemporary."

Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality, is forthcoming from Other Press, and Ugly Duckling Presse will be publishing exchanges on the avant garde between Place and appropriation poet Robert Fitterman as part of its Dossier Series. Other work has appeared in a other publications, including The nOulipian Analects, Five Fingers Review, Fold Magazine, Greetings #10, 4^th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Bookforum.

She lives in Los Angeles.