Hear from our lead author, Patricia Lockwood, author of Will There Ever Be Another You, No One is Talking About This, and Priestdaddy. In conversation with Anna Shechtman. Lockwood will be signing books after the talk.

Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in all of the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of the novel No One is Talking About This, a finalist for the Booker Prize; the memoir Priestdaddy, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review; and the poetry collection Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. Lockwood’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.

Anna Shechtman is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell, specializing in media studies and American literature. She is currently working on a two-volume history of the media and data concepts in the United States. Her research has been published in Critical Inquiry and Representations, and her freelance essays and reviews have appeared in many outlets, including the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Yale Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is an editor-at-large. She writes monthly crossword puzzles for the New Yorker, and her first book, "The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle" was published by HarperCollins in 2024.