Poet Sarah Howe and memoirist Jeremy Atherton Lin discuss what it takes to build a home across continents and the new rules for love in conversation with Deepa Paul, author of Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage.
Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gay Bar: Why We Went Out. His essays appear in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement and the Yale Review, for which he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio. He is based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England. His latest book Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told was published by Allen Lane in June.
Sarah Howe is a multi-award-winning British poet, academic and editor. Her latest collection Foretokens is out in October 2025 from Chatto & Windus. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, won an Eric Gregory Award, and her first collection, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2014, she co-founded Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism. She is currently the Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool.
Deepa Paul is a Filipina-Indian author living in Amsterdam. Her writing explores the balance between being a mother, wife, girlfriend, daughter, adventurer, and herself – all at the same time. Her first book, Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage, was published by Viking in May 2025.
