Xochitl Gonzalez, Wedding Planner Turned Novelist

At the New York Times, Xochitl Gonzalez discusses her debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming, and how her years as a wedding planner prepared her to write a novel. “I have a problem-solving brain and there’s a certain amout of novel-writing that I find to be problem-solving,” Gonzalez says. “You create this hypothetical world and these circumstances and you work your way through them in a way that feels believable and has a certain logic.”