10 Questions Caroline Harper NewI used to have a housefull of sisters and a dress that smelledlike oranges. I used to have a braid—from Caroline Harper New’s “Loom,” Volume 66, Issue 2 (Summer 2025)Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. They tell a story of finding Amelia Earhart in the belly of a whale as a way to work through family secrets. It inhabits the surrealism of the Southern Gothic, grappling with questions of extinction and loss through fantasy and fixation. CAROLINE HARPER NEW is a poet and artist from southwest Georgia.