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. 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 and was named a judge for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Books in order of publication:
Fiction
No One Is Talking About This. Riverhead Books. (2021)
Will There Ever Be Another You. Riverhead Books. (2025)
Nonfiction
Priestdaddy. Riverhead Books. (2017)
Poetry collections
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (paperback ed.). Octopus Books. (2012)
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (paperback ed.). Penguin Books. (2014)
Agate Head/Stone Soup (paperback ed.). Penguin Books. (2026)
Oak Lawn Library Friends 