About the Speakers
Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This, an international bestseller, finalist for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and translated into 30 languages. Her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century. She also has two poetry collections, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014) and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012). Lockwood's work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.

Tara K. Menon is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. Her first academic book, Speaking Parts: Character, Conversation, and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century British Novels, is under contract with Princeton University Press. Her debut novel, Under Water, is forthcoming from Riverhead (US) and Summit (UK). Her reviews and essays have appeared in venues including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Sewanee Review, Bookforum, and The Paris Review online.

About the Series: Writers Speak
Writers Speak, a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by Duncan White, Associate Director in the Program in General Education and Lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard University.