Katie Smith is a writer and immigration advocate from Philadelphia. Find her on Instagram at @saddy_yankee for cat pics.

Katie Smith

It’s Just a River Rivering: A Conversation with Mesha Maren

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Katie Smith is a writer and immigration advocate from Philadelphia. Find her on Instagram at @saddy_yankee for cat pics.