Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood (born April 27, 1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Beginning a career in poetry, her collections include ''Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals'', a 2014 ''New York Times'' Notable Book. Later prose works received more exposure and notoriety. She is a multiple award winner: her 2017 memoir ''Priestdaddy'' won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and her 2021 debut novel, ''No One Is Talking About This,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize. In addition to her writing activities, she has been a contributing editor for the ''London Review of Books'' since 2019 .

She is notable for working across and between a variety of genres. "Your work can flow into the shape that people make for you," she told ''Slate'' in an interview in 2020. "Or you can try to break that shape." In 2022, she received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for her contributions to the field of experimental writing.

Lockwood is the only writer with both fiction and nonfiction works selected as the 10 Best Books of the Year by ''The New York Times''. At four years, she also holds the record for the shortest span between repeat appearances on the list.

''Kirkus Reviews'' has called her "our guide to moving beyond thinking of the internet as a thing apart from real lives and real art," and ''Garden & Gun'': "goddess of the avant-garde." Provided by Wikipedia