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.

The poetic image has long been a companion of the seeking, even in its guile. Itself a thing that lies between the immediate and the ineffable, the image lends its wielding to those who wander that gulf.