Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession

Jake Kendall is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh’s MSc programme in Creative Writing. His own obsession with art began during a happy period working for the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology in his hometown of Oxford. Since then, art history and fiction have become twin passions that have fuelled and inspired his imagination.When he is not writing fiction Jake writes for the Edinburgh International Culture Summit, an organisation that brings cultural ministers together with leaders from the arts world, academics, and activists, focussing on issues of global urgency with the aim of affecting positive change through cultural policy.Simona Slavova is a visual artist from Bulgaria who is currently based in Lisbon. She obtained a degree in Illustration & Comics from a small art academy called Ar.Co.Emily TahaBurt is an artist and illustrator currently residing between Baltimore (USA) and Cairo (Egypt). Her previous commissions include illustrations for Lamplight Magazine, Trampoline Poetry, and several small businesses across Ireland and the USA.

"thought-provoking, intelligent, brilliant"—Devika Ponnambalam, author of *I Am Not Your Eve