Vivian Blaxell

Vivian Blaxell’s work has appeared at Journal of Asian Studies, Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Review, TruthOut, History News, Network, Meanjin, Overland, Cordite Poetry Review and The Believer. “Nuclear Cats” was a finalist for the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature. A book of what editors call essays but which Vivian thinks of as fictions with documentary features is forthcoming in the USA in early 2025.

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Published in Overland Issue 252 Spring 2023 · Writing

The Disappearance of a.k.a. Victor Mature

Vivian Blaxell

The Aguila Azteca creaks out of Nuevo Laredo at twenty-seven minutes after nine. There is that desert in the night and there is this moon shedding silver from what always looks like a horrified face to me no matter what they say about beautiful or green cheese or rabbit (if you are Japanese) and there […]

5 February 20219 March 2021 · Essay

The disappointments

Vivian Blaxell

My vagina disappoints me, I say to myself once a month or so. One doctor looks at my vagina and says, ‘yes, well, that’s the sort of vagina you got on the public health in 1972.’