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{{Short description|American novelist, poet, literary critic, and educator}}

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| birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.| death_date = | death_place =| death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality =| other_names = | known_for = What Belongs to You CleannessInterlochen Center for the Arts>Interlochen Arts AcademyState University of New York at Purchase (Bachelor of Arts>BA)Washington University in St. Louis (Master of Fine Arts)Harvard University (Master of Arts>MA)| employer = | occupation = Novelist| title =| term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }}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 ReviewNEWS,weblink Gospodar, Greenwell, Garth, 2014-01-01, Paris Review, 209, 0031-2037, 2016-03-24, 2016-03-13,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160313025607weblink">weblink live, and A Public Space and writes criticism for The New YorkerMAGAZINE,weblink Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 2016-03-24, 2016-03-10,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160310103250weblink">weblink live, and The Atlantic.WEB,weblink Garth Greenwell, Greenwell, Garth, The Atlantic, en-US, 2016-03-24, 2016-03-04,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160304094044weblink">weblink live, 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|date=August 2023}}

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.WEB, In Pose Review,weblink Orpheus Sequence, Greenwell, Garth, March 21, 2021, May 21, 2021,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20210521230808weblink">weblink live, WEB, Table of contents,weblink disquietingmuses,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170422140926weblink">weblink April 22, 2017, March 21, 2021, 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.NEWS, Barone, Joshua, January 9, 2020, Garth Greenwell Comes Clean, en-US, C6, New York Times,weblink February 15, 2021, 0362-4331, February 14, 2021,weblink live,

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.WEB,weblink Faculty, acs.bg, 2016-03-24, 2016-03-13,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160313000605weblink">weblink dead, His frequent book reviews in the literary journal West Branch transitioned into a yearly column called "To a Green Thought: Garth Greenwell on Poetry."WEB,weblink To a Green Thought: Garth Greenwell on Poetry., 2011-12-11, 2013-06-12,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130612070025weblink">weblink live, Greenwell, Garth. "The First Thing and the Last" and "Two Elegists" in West Branch.WEB,weblink Teacher Garth Greenwell's New Poetry Column: To a Green Thought, January 8, 2009, Green Hill School, March 21, 2021,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120405233052weblink">weblink April 5, 2012, Greenwell's first novella, Mitko, won the Miami University Press Novella PrizeWEB,weblink Miami University Press - Mitko, 2011-12-10, 2012-04-06,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120406202027weblink">weblink live, and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award as well as the Lambda Award. His work has appeared in Yale Review,Greenwell, Garth. 2010. "An Evening Out." The Yale Review, 92:2. WEB,weblink Yale Review | contributors, 2011-12-10, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100606155954weblink">weblink 2010-06-06, Boston Review,Greenwell, Garth. "Facilitas" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107003025weblink |date=2011-11-07 }}, Boston Review. December 2004/January 2005. Salmagundi, Michigan Quarterly Review,JOURNAL, Greenwell, Garth, 2008, Likeness, Michigan Quarterly Review, 47, 4, 2027/spo.act2080.0047.405,weblink March 21, 2021, and Poetry International, among others.His debut novel, What Belongs to You, was called the "first great novel of 2016" by Publishers Weekly.WEB,weblink Staff Pick: 'What Belongs to You' by Garth Greenwell, PublishersWeekly.com, Gabe, Habash, 2015-12-04, 2016-03-24, 2016-04-05,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160405052302weblink">weblink live, His second novel, Cleanness, was published in January 2020 and well received by critics.WEB, Sex, Violence and Self-Discovery Collide in the Incandescent 'Cleanness',weblink Dwight, Garner, The New York Times, 2020-01-13, 2020-01-15, 2020-01-15,weblink live, MAGAZINE, These gorgeous new novels explore sex with empathy, complexity, and radical honesty, Leah, Greenblatt,weblink Entertainment Weekly, 2020-01-14, 2020-01-15, 2020-01-15,weblink live, WEB, Review: Garth Greenwell's 'Cleanness' thrums with life's questions,weblink Los Angeles Times, Nellie, Hermann, 2020-01-10, 2020-01-15, 2020-01-15,weblink live, 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.2010 Bechtel Prize Winner was Garth Greenwell for "A Native Music: Writing the City in Sofia, Bulgaria." WEB,weblink Archived copy, 2011-12-10, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111108042624weblink">weblink 2011-11-08, He was the 2008 John Atherton Scholar for Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.Biography, see WEB,weblink The Bechtel Prize 2010 Winner and Finalists, 2011-12-10, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111108042624weblink">weblink 2011-11-08,

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.WEB,weblink LGBT, Life and Literature." The Sofia Echo. June 17, 2011, December 10, 2011, March 5, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160305005414weblink">weblink live, 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."WEB, Sciallo, Andrew, Sex, Freedom, Cruising, and Consent: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell,weblink Literary Hub, 24 June 2022, May 23, 2023, March 28, 2023,weblink live,

Bibliography

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Novels

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

Anthologies (edited)

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

Short fiction

StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.{|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'

!width=25%|Title!|Year!|First published!|Reprinted/collected!|Notes|Mitko|2011YEAR=2011, | |Novella|An Evening Out|2017TITLE=AN EVENING OUT VOLUME=93 PAGES=62–69,weblink | ||The Frog King|2018MAGAZINE=THE NEW YORKER ISSUE=42 URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWYORKER.COM/MAGAZINE/2018/11/26/THE-FROG-KING, | ||Harbor|2019URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWYORKER.COM/MAGAZINE/2019/09/16/HARBOR, The New Yorker, ||

Essays and reporting

• JOURNAL, May 8, 2017, Get out of town : 'The end of Eddy', a novel of class and violence in the provinces, The Critics. Books, The New Yorker, 93, 12, 62–65,weblink 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".

Notes

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References

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External links

• {{Official website|www.garthgreenwell.com}}
• Paris Review interview, 2020.

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