INTER/E/VIEWS

Poet and author of Life of the Party Olivia Gatwood has released her long-awaited debut novel, Whoever You Are, Honey. Set in the liminal space of Santa Cruz, California (a town grasping on to tradition as modernity threatens to destroy its past), we meet Mitty, a reclusively introspective protagonist whose rejection of the world reveals a stormy interior contrasting with her unassuming exterior.

When you are born of—and implicated in—violent structures of colonization, how do you pursue liberation? In The Land is Holy, an essay collection published by Radix Printing & Publishing, noam keim embarks on a journey through language, memory, and natural landscapes to reclaim a sense of kinship and belonging against the inherited violence of settler-colonialism.