Katharine Smyth

Katharine Smyth is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her essays and articles have appeared The Paris Review, Elle, The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Point, DuJour, Poets & Writers and Dominoamong other publications. Her first book, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, was published by Crown in 2019 and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Credit Photo: Frances F. Denny.

Loneliness is other People
New York, 2020. She had just met Ian. For the first time in a long while, since her divorce in fact, she liked a man. Truly. The beginning of a relationship becomes complicated when Ian, having gone to China, finds himself confined there.
