Acclaimed writer Lydia Millet will deliver the 2025 William Gifford Lecture on November 5, 2025. The event is free and open to the public.

Lydia Millet’s most recent book is Atavists: Stories (2025); a double novel called Fair Ones is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in Fall 2026. Millet is the author of many fictions as well as a work of nonfiction called We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (2024). Her novel A Children’s Bible (2020) was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Book Review Best 10 Books of 2020; other books have been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, PEN-Center USA, and as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also writes op-eds, book reviews, and personal essays for publications including The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Washington Post. She lives in the desert outside Tucson and since 1999 has worked as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Sponsored by the English Department and the Gifford Fund for writers-in-residence.