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Patricia Lockwood

Biography

Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of the novel NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS and the memoir PRIESTDADDY, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, and two poetry collections: BALLOON POP OUTLAW BLACK and MOTHERLAND FATHERLAND HOMELANDSEXUALS, a New York Times Notable Book. Lockwood’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.

Patricia Lockwood

Books by Patricia Lockwood

No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood - Fiction

A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world. She must navigate the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats --- from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness --- begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong" and "How soon can you get here?"

Priestdaddy: A Memoir
by Patricia Lockwood - Memoir, Nonfiction

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met --- a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and constantly jams on the guitar. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory, their two worlds collide. In PRIESTDADDY, Patricia Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own.