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name: "Vanessa Place"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vanessa-place"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 May 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T23:23:14.270867+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Vanessa Place

Writer. Born 10 May 1968 in Stratford.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 May 1968, Stratford

## Biography

Vanessa Place is an American writer, poet and criminal appellate attorney. She has written for television series including *Xena: Warrior Princess* (2001), *Hercules: The Legendary Journeys* (1999), *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (2003), *Young Hercules* (1998–1999) and *The Legend of Tarzan* (2001).

Place earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MFA from Antioch University and a JD from Boston University. She co-directs the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press, which publishes experimental writing, and has published numerous books of poetry, prose and conceptual writing, including *La Medusa* (2008) and the *Tragodía* trilogy.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, poets.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/xena-warrior-princess.md)

## Also known for

- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Story
- *Hercules: The Legendary Journeys* (1995), Writer
- *The Legend of Tarzan* (2001), Writer
- *Young Hercules* (1998), Writer

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