Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. Her debut collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, was released in 2012 by Octopus Books; a selection of her poetry was included in Penguin Modern Poets 2- Controlled Explosions (2016), and her second collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2017. Her poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Tin House and Poetry.
Extraordinary ... [Lockwood] weaves together past and present in
prose that sizzles and sings ... At times, it feels as if you are
eating a pudding stuffed with fruit, chocolate, nuts and a hefty
dashy of a strong liqueur ... the book is glorious. It crackles
with energy and life. It's funny, it's hectic, and it will
sometimes trip you up with a sudden sense of anger and pain
*Sunday Times*
Funny and anarchic ... Priestdaddy is a piece of autobiographical
writing like no other ... Father Lockwood is a character you
couldn't make up, however poetic your imagination. Obsessed with
ships and sizzlin' food, he is a gun-toting Southerner who loves
thrashing out heavy rock riffs on his electric guitar while wearing
only the tiniest pair of underpants ... Simple childhood moments
such as learning to swim are bathed in a glorious light that
radiates safety and good humour ... The awful things (things that
other priests do; grief; the events that led to 'Rape Joke') are
given impressionistic treatment, because this is not a misery
memoir. Which is not to say she won't weigh in on the Catholic
church's subjugation of women, and the thuggish pro-lifery of her
upbringing ... She shoots straight when describing classic Southern
machismo ... Lockwood's contribution to the hottest oeuvre of the
21st century [memoir] is delightfully amateurish: chaotic,
unstructured and laugh-out-loud funny, with not a trace of a
creative writing MA. This naughty, innocent, truthful writer is
definitely one to watch
*The Times*
An extraordinary memoir
*Observer*
Patricia Lockwood['s ...] memoir of growing up a priest's daughter
in Kansas City gives a rare and nuanced glimpse of life behind the
presbytery doors ... Lockwood has a sharp eye for detail and a way
with words when conveying it ... But this memoir isn't just about
making readers laugh. She also uses her privileged vantage point to
get under the skin of contemporary Catholicism ... unflinching as
it is, Lockwood has produced from her peculiar childhood something
that is exceptional - exquisitely written, funny, disturbing and
freighted with insight, lightly worn. Father Greg should be
proud
*Telegraph*
Lockwood's prose is cute and dirty and innocent and experienced,
Betty Boop in a pas de deux with David Sedaris ... [Priestdaddy]
roars from the gate ... electric
*The New York Times*
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