Vanessa Holyoak is an L.A.-based interdisciplinary writer and artist. She is a PhD candidate in comparative media and culture at the University of Southern California. Her debut novel, I See More Clearly in the Dark, was published by Sming Sming Books in 2023, and its second edition was published in 2025.
Vanessa Holyoak
Articles
One Step Removed from Ash
Vanessa Holyoak explores memory and loss after the L.A. fires, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
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