Odessa is 26 years old and describes herself as someone who has their finger in many different pies. She fears leaving a stone unturned; in that sense, Fiend is a stone turned. Reading has always been very dear to her; “it’s exploratory for the self and the world, and a way of getting away when getting away isn’t possible – at once enhancing your present while giving you somewhere else to go. I think it’s powerful!” Fiend has allowed Odessa to extend that love of reading into something to be shared with others, even in the form of particular kinds of books. Day-to-day activities with Fiend usually involve sending emails, wrapping up orders, and, her favourite, browsing books to stock. Odessa states that she is lucky that the workload can more or less shift with the time she has to spend on it (leaving her with more time to dip her finger into another of her pies).