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Garth Greenwell

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Garth Greenwell
Born (1978-03-19) March 19, 1978 (age 45)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
EducationInterlochen Arts Academy
Alma materState University of New York at Purchase
Washington University in St. Louis
Harvard University
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]

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

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly.

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue.

The Atlantic

The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.

Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing. It has been cited as the best graduate writing program in the nation, counting among its alumni 17 Pulitzer Prize winners.

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]

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Interlochen Center for the Arts is a non-profit corporation which operates arts education institutions and performance venues. Established in 1928 by Joseph E. Maddy, Interlochen Center for the Arts is located on a 1,200-acre (490 ha) campus in Green Lake Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, near the eponymous community of Interlochen.

Interlochen, Michigan

Interlochen, Michigan

Interlochen is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the population was 694, up from 583 at the 2010 census. The community is located within Green Lake Township.

Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman.

State University of New York at Purchase

State University of New York at Purchase

The State University of New York at Purchase is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It was founded by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1967 as "the cultural gem of the SUNY system."

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington.

Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

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]

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the fifth-largest city in Michigan. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Washtenaw County. Ann Arbor is also included in the Greater Detroit Combined Statistical Area and the Great Lakes megalopolis, the most populated and largest megalopolis in North America.

American College of Sofia

American College of Sofia

The American College of Sofia (ACS) (Bulgarian: Американски колеж в София) is a school in Bulgaria, located in the capital city of Sofia.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas.

West Branch (journal)

West Branch (journal)

West Branch is an American literary magazine based at Bucknell University and published by the Stadler Center for Poetry. It was established in 1977 and publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism. TSince 2021, the editor-in-chief is Joe Scapellato. In addition to the print magazine, West Branch also publishes West Branch Wired, an online supplement featuring fiction, poetry, and interviews.

The Yale Review

The Yale Review

The Yale Review is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Boston Review

Boston Review

Boston Review is an American quarterly political and literary magazine. It publishes political, social, and historical analysis, literary and cultural criticism, book reviews, fiction, and poetry, both online and in print. Its signature form is a "forum", featuring a lead essay and several responses. Boston Review also publishes an imprint of books with MIT Press.

Michigan Quarterly Review

Michigan Quarterly Review

The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Poetry International Web

Poetry International Web

Poetry International Web is an international webzine and a poetry archive put together by a collective body of editors around the world and centrally edited in Rotterdam. It was originally launched in 2002. The site presents poetry from many countries in their original languages and in English translation. The website also publishes journalistic contributions such as essays and interviews on poets and poetry and provides annual media coverage of the Poetry International festival in Rotterdam.

Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Teachers & Writers Collaborative is a New York City-based organization that sends writers and other artists into schools. It was founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators, including Herbert Kohl, June Jordan, Muriel Rukeyser, Grace Paley, and Anne Sexton, who believed that writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing.

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by The New Yorker "the oldest and most prestigious writers' conference in the country." Bread Loaf is a program of Middlebury College and at its inception was closely associated with Robert Frost, who attended a total of 29 sessions.

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]

Source: "Garth Greenwell", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 20th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Greenwell.

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Further Reading

Jeffrey Eugenides

Richard Ford

Jesse Ball

Andrew Holleran

Forrest Gander

Ben Lerner

Michigan Quarterly Review

A Public Space

Georgi Gospodinov

Idra Novey

Teju Cole

Alex Dimitrov

Tiphanie Yanique

Ocean Vuong

R. B. Lemberg

Iana Boukova
Bibliography

Novels

  • What Belongs to You. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2016.
  • What Belongs to You (U.K. ed.). Picador. 2016.
  • Cleanness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020.

Anthologies (edited)

  • Kink, co-edited with R.O. Kwon. Simon & Schuster. 2021.

Short fiction

Stories[a]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Mitko 2011 Mitko. Miami University Press. 2011. Novella
An Evening Out 2017 Greenwell, Garth (August 21, 2017). "An Evening Out". The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 24. pp. 62–69.
The Frog King 2018 "The Frog King". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 42. November 26, 2018. pp. 74–81.
Harbor 2019 "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".
References
  1. ^ Greenwell, Garth (2014-01-01). "Gospodar". Paris Review. No. 209. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  2. ^ "Garth Greenwell". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  3. ^ Greenwell, Garth. "Garth Greenwell". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  4. ^ Greenwell, Garth. "Orpheus Sequence". In Pose Review. 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. Retrieved February 15, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Faculty". acs.bg. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  8. ^ "To a Green Thought: Garth Greenwell on Poetry" (PDF).
  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. ^ a b "Miami University Press - Mitko".
  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. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  16. ^ Garner, Dwight (2020-01-13). "Sex, Violence and Self-Discovery Collide in the Incandescent 'Cleanness'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  17. ^ Greenblatt, Leah (2020-01-14). "These gorgeous new novels explore sex with empathy, complexity, and radical honesty". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  18. ^ Hermann, Nellie (2020-01-10). "Review: Garth Greenwell's 'Cleanness' thrums with life's questions". Los Angeles Times. 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. ^ "Of LGBT, Life and Literature." The Sofia Echo. June 17, 2011
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