Greg Wrenn | |
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 Greg Wrenn introducing Garrard Conley at James Madison University | |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Genre | Memoir, environmental nonfiction, poetry |
| Notable works | Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, Centaur |
| Notable awards | Stegner Fellowship, Brittingham Prize |
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Greg Wrenn is an American writer from Jacksonville, Florida. [1] He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he is an associate professor of English at James Madison University. [2] [3] He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. [4] From 2010-2016 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry and then a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. [5]
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His first book, Centaur, was selected by National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes for the Brittingham Prize. [6] His essays and poems have appeared in Al Jazeera, The New Republic, New England Review, The Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Journal , The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. [2] [7] [8] [9] [10] Wrenn, a certified scuba diver, writes essays primarily about the ocean, including the coral reefs of the Raja Ampat archipelago. [11] His nonfiction book, Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, is forthcoming in 2024 and is about turning to coral reefs, forests, and psychedelic plants to heal from childhood trauma. [12] [13]
