“With each book you get a new fresh chance.”

Patricia Lockwood is an American poet, novelist, and essayist widely regarded as one of the most original literary voices of her generation. A contributing editor at the London Review of Books, she is the only writer with both fiction and nonfiction works selected as the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times.

Lockwood is the bestselling author of the memoir Priestdaddy — named one of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century — and the novels No One Is Talking About This, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Booker, and Will There Ever Be Another You, named one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2025. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Agate Head/Stone Soup, is published by Penguin in 2026.

"A cultural critic at the height of her powers." — The Paris Review