 She also reported on contemporary politics for "The New Masses," a radical journal of the twenties.She lived with poet Kenneth Fearing, her romantic partner, and became friends with writers and artists of the period, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Walt Kuhn, Meridel Le Sueur, Carl Rakosi, and photographer Carl Van Vechten.Before her first novel was published in 1928, Latimer had stories published in "Century", "The American Caravan", "The Bookman (New York)" and other journals.