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Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne on April 27, 1982, and raised across the Midwest — in her standard biographical phrase, "in all of the worst cities of the Midwest." Her father, a former Lutheran minister who became a Catholic priest, is the subject of her memoir Priestdaddy (2017), which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the New York Times' ten best books of 2017. Her poetry collections are Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012) and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014), a New York Times Notable Book; her 2013 prose poem "Rape Joke" became one of the most widely discussed poems of its decade. Her debut novel, No One Is Talking About This (2021), was a finalist for the Booker Prize and won the Dylan Thomas Prize. She writes for the New Yorker, the New York Times and the London Review of Books.
Sources: Butler University Visiting Writers Series LibGuide; publisher biography (Riverhead Books, via Google Books).