Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell
Born (1978-03-19) March 19, 1978 (age 46)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
EducationInterlochen Arts Academy
Alma materState University of New York at Purchase (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MFA)
Harvard University (MA)
OccupationNovelist
Known forWhat Belongs to You
Cleanness
Small Rain

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]

In 2013, Greenwell returned to the United States after living in Bulgaria to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop as an Arts Fellow.[4][5]

  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. ^ "Garth Greenwell". lighthousewriters.org. Retrieved June 10, 2024. Greenwell holds graduate degrees from Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. A native of Kentucky, Greenwell taught high school in Sofia, Bulgaria for four years before returning to the States. He is the 2018-19 John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He lives in Iowa City.
  5. ^ Morris, Lucy (January 20, 2016). "Iowa City author Garth Greenwell hopes to break the ice for queer writers working in Bulgaria". Retrieved June 10, 2024. Most profoundly, the experience of being gay in Bulgaria in 2009-2013 and the experience of teaching adolescents in Bulgaria and so talking to gay adolescents in Bulgaria, just kept throwing me back again and again to the early '90s in Kentucky when I was coming into awareness of myself as a gay person.