Louis & Holly (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186832461)

Part poetry chapbook, part imagined literary conversation, Louis & Holly asks a simple question: What if Holly Golightly and Louis de Pointe du Lac met by chance at a South Florida gas station and never truly met again? What follows is a text-message courtship stretched across time, that readers will find is equal parts flirtation, philosophy, confession, loneliness, and longing.

Set against the backdrop of post-9/11 America, Motorola Razrs, Sidekicks, BlackBerrys, conspiracy theories, late-night convenience stores, and the strange optimism of the early internet, this collection explores what it means to construct intimacy through language alone. It's a meditation on freedom, womanhood, desire, mental illness, imagination, and the persistent hope that another person might finally see us as we are.

If you've ever fallen in love with someone's mind before their body, lived inside your phone, or carried on conversations that felt larger than life itself, this book may feel strangely familiar.

P.C. Tavarez is a Cuban Dominican poet, novelist, and fiber artist from Miami, Florida, now living in Indiana. Her writing explores Caribbean memory, diaspora, womanhood, mental illness, mythology, and the quiet rituals that shape identity, blending lyrical confession with cultural history and speculative imagination.

She is the author of the poetry collections That's Not Love, That's a Live Grenade (2021), Love in Winter, Alive in Spring (2024), the chapbook I'm Sorry I'm Just a Girl (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025), the expanded collection I'm Sorry I'm Just a Girl and Other Lunacies (2026), the novella Esther & Holden (2026), and the poetry chapbook Louis & Holly (2026). She is currently completing Songs of a Hairless Tongue, a collection of Spanglish poems exploring the Cuban and Dominican diaspora, language, ancestry, and belonging.

Her poetry has appeared in online literary journals and magazines, and her visual artwork and writing often intersect through fiber art, folklore, and the domestic landscapes of memory. She shares her work online as Daft Pixie, where she documents her creative practice, publishes new poetry, and explores the intersections of literature, craft, and Caribbean culture.