Ruth Ozeki 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, 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 is the author of the novel Little Gods (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 (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.
Writers Speak, a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by Duncan White, Associate Director of Studies in History & Literature at Harvard University.
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