#  Writers Speak | Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Meng Jin 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 30, 2023** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building**  



 

 



 

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##  [WRITERS SPEAK](/writers-speak)

##  SPEAKER: Ruth Ozeki

##  In Conversation with Meng Jin

###  About the Speakers

 [Ruth Ozeki](https://www.ruthozeki.com/) is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: *The Book of Form and Emptiness*, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; *My Year of Meats*; *All Over Creation*; and [A Tale for the Time Being](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780143124870)*, which won the *LA Times* Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, *The Face: A Time Code*, and the documentary film, *Halving the Bones*. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foun­dation. She is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College.

 [Meng Jin](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/meng-jin) is the author of the novel *[Little Gods](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780062935960)* (2020, Custom House), which was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award, LA Times First Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award; and the story collection *[Self-Portrait with Ghost](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780063160729)* (2022, Custom House). She is the recipient of a David TK Wong Fellowship, Steinbeck Fellowship, and Creative Capital Award, and her short fiction has been anthologized in the *Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses* and *Best American Short Stories*.

###  About the Series

 [Writers Speak](/writers-speak), a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by [Duncan White](https://scholar.harvard.edu/dew/home), Associate Director of Studies in History & Literature at Harvard University.



 

 



 

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