Dylan Thomas Prize Winner
In partnership with Indiana Humanities

Patricia Lockwood is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, memoirist, and poet who was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in all of the worst cities of the Midwest. She is known for her fearless voice and singular style that have reshaped the literary landscape.

Lockwood is the author of the novel No One is Talking About This, a finalist for the Booker Prize and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021. The Atlantic hailed the book as one of the Great American Novels of the past 100 years. Her unforgettable memoir Priestdaddy, which recounts her unconventional upbringing as the daughter of a Catholic priest won the Thurber Prize—America’s top honor for humor writing—and was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. The memoir was widely celebrated for its originality, humor, and candor.

She is also the author of two poetry collections and the viral prose-poem “Rape Joke,” which became a cultural touchstone for its raw, unflinching examination of personal trauma.

Her essays and criticism appear frequently in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.

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