Garth Greenwell

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Garth Greenwell
Born (1978-03-19) March 19, 1978 (age 45)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Education Interlochen Arts Academy
Alma mater State University of New York at Purchase (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MFA)
Harvard University (MA)
OccupationNovelist
Known forWhat Belongs to You
Cleanness

Garth Greenwell (born March 19, 1978) is an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and educator. He has published the novella Mitko (2011) and the novels What Belongs to You (2016) and Cleanness (2020). He has also published stories in The Paris Review [1] and A Public Space and writes criticism for The New Yorker [2] and The Atlantic . [3]

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In 2013, Greenwell returned to the United States after living in Bulgaria to attend the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop as an Arts Fellow.[ citation needed ]

Early life

Garth Greenwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 19, 1978, and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1996. He studied voice at the Eastman School of Music, then transferred to earn a BA degree in Literature with a minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase in 2001, where he served as a contributing editor for In Posse Review and received the 2000 Grolier Poetry Prize. [4] [5] He received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, an MA in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and also spent three years on Ph.D. coursework there. [6]

Career

Greenwell taught English at Greenhills, a private high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria; the school is famous for being the oldest American educational institution outside the US. [7] His frequent book reviews in the literary journal West Branch transitioned into a yearly column called "To a Green Thought: Garth Greenwell on Poetry." [8] [9] [10]

Greenwell's first novella, Mitko, won the Miami University Press Novella Prize [11] and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award as well as the Lambda Award. [11] His work has appeared in Yale Review , [12] Boston Review , [13] Salmagundi, Michigan Quarterly Review , [14] and Poetry International , among others.

His debut novel, What Belongs to You, was called the "first great novel of 2016" by Publishers Weekly. [15] His second novel, Cleanness, was published in January 2020 and well received by critics. [16] [17] [18]

Greenwell has received the Grolier Prize, the Rella Lossy Award, an award from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, and the Bechtel Prize from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. [19] He was the 2008 John Atherton Scholar for Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. [20]

LGBT rights advocacy in Bulgaria

In its article "Of LGBT, Life and Literature," the English-language weekly newspaper Sofia Echo credits Greenwell's publications with bringing much needed attention to the LGBT experience in Bulgaria and to other English-speaking audiences through various broadcasts, interviews, blog posts, and reviews. [21]

In an interview with Literary Hub about the release of Kinks, he said about Grindr: "I want to argue for the value of those spaces existing as well. I would want to argue—again, with the understanding that there are lots of places for gay men to meet gay men, where nobody’s going to grab anyone’s crotch—that the kind of sociality that is possible in that atmosphere of permissiveness is really valuable. I would want to argue for places like that being able to exist." [22]

Bibliography

Novels

Anthologies (edited)

Short fiction

Stories [lower-alpha 1]
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Mitko2011Mitko. Miami University Press. 2011.Novella
An Evening Out2017Greenwell, Garth (August 21, 2017). "An Evening Out". The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 24. pp. 62–69.
The Frog King2018 "The Frog King". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 42. November 26, 2018. pp. 74–81.
Harbor2019 "Harbor". The New Yorker. September 16, 2019.

Essays and reporting

Notes

  1. ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  2. ↑ Discusses, inter alia, the novel The end of Eddy by French author Édouard Louis. Online version is titled "Growing up poor and queer in a French village".

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References

  1. ↑ Greenwell, Garth (2014-01-01). "Gospodar". Paris Review. No. 209. ISSN   0031-2037. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  2. ↑ "Garth Greenwell". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  3. ↑ Greenwell, Garth. "Garth Greenwell". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  4. ↑ Greenwell, Garth. "Orpheus Sequence". In Pose Review. Archived from the original on May 21, 2021. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Table of contents". disquietingmuses. Archived from the original on April 22, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ Barone, Joshua (January 9, 2020). "Garth Greenwell Comes Clean". New York Times. p. C6. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Faculty". acs.bg. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  8. ↑ "To a Green Thought: Garth Greenwell on Poetry" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
  9. ↑ Greenwell, Garth. "The First Thing and the Last" and "Two Elegists" in West Branch.
  10. ↑ "Teacher Garth Greenwell's New Poetry Column: To a Green Thought". Green Hill School. January 8, 2009. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  11. 1 2 "Miami University Press - Mitko". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
  12. ↑ Greenwell, Garth. 2010. "An Evening Out." The Yale Review, 92:2. "Yale Review | contributors". Archived from the original on 2010-06-06. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
  13. ↑ Greenwell, Garth. "Facilitas" Archived 2011-11-07 at the Wayback Machine , Boston Review. December 2004/January 2005.
  14. ↑ Greenwell, Garth (2008). "Likeness". Michigan Quarterly Review. 47 (4). hdl:2027/spo.act2080.0047.405 . Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  15. ↑ Habash, Gabe (2015-12-04). "Staff Pick: 'What Belongs to You' by Garth Greenwell". PublishersWeekly.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  16. ↑ Garner, Dwight (2020-01-13). "Sex, Violence and Self-Discovery Collide in the Incandescent 'Cleanness'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  17. ↑ Greenblatt, Leah (2020-01-14). "These gorgeous new novels explore sex with empathy, complexity, and radical honesty". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  18. ↑ Hermann, Nellie (2020-01-10). "Review: Garth Greenwell's 'Cleanness' thrums with life's questions". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  19. ↑ 2010 Bechtel Prize Winner was Garth Greenwell for "A Native Music: Writing the City in Sofia, Bulgaria." "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2011-12-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. ↑ Biography, see "The Bechtel Prize 2010 Winner and Finalists" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
  21. ↑ "LGBT, Life and Literature." The Sofia Echo. June 17, 2011". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  22. ↑ Sciallo, Andrew. "Sex, Freedom, Cruising, and Consent: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on March 28, 2023. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
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