Writers Speak | Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Meng Jin

Join us for a Writers Speak event with novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki, in conversation with Meng Jin. 6:00pm at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University. Free and open to the public. About the Speakers <a href="https://www.ruthozeki.com/">Ruth Ozeki</a> is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780399563669">The Book of Form and Emptiness</a>, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780140280463">My Year of Meats</a>; <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780142003893">All Over Creation</a>; and <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780143124870">A Tale for the Time Being</a>, 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, <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9781632060525">The Face: A Time Code</a>, and the documentary film, <a href="https://www.ruthozeki.com/writing-film/halving-the-bones">Halving the Bones</a>. 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. <a href="https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/meng-jin">Meng Jin</a> is the author of the novel <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780062935960">Little Gods</a> (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 <a href="https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780063160729">Self-Portrait with Ghost</a> (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 <a href="https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/writers-speak">Writers Speak</a>, a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/dew/home">Duncan White</a>, Associate Director of Studies in History &amp; Literature at Harvard University.

John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

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