Greg Wrenn

Greg Wrenn is an American poet and nonfiction writer from Jacksonville, Florida.[1] He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he is an assistant professor of English at James Madison University.[2][3] He received an AB from Harvard University in 2003 and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008.[4] At Stanford University from 2010-2016 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry and a Jones Lecturer.[5]

His first book of poems, Centaur, was awarded the Brittingham Prize and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2013.[6] His essays and poems have appeared in 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 and is at work on a memoir about the coral reefs of the Raja Ampat archipelago.[11]

Career

Awards

Bibliography
  • Centaur (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)[6]
  • Off the Fire Road (Green Tower Press, 2008)[12]

References
  1. "How I Write: Greg Wrenn — Poet". UofL Writing Center. 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  2. "Greg Wrenn". www.jmu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  3. "Bio". Greg Wrenn. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  4. "CV". Greg Wrenn. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  5. "Greg Wrenn « Stanford Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  6. "UW Press - : Centaur Greg Wrenn". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "Poetry Daily Prose Feature - Greg Wrenn: The 23rd-Century Nature Poem". poems.com. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  8. "Innocence by Greg Wrenn | Kenyon Review Online". www.kenyonreview.org. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  9. "Homeworld: A Poem by Greg Wrenn". New Republic. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  10. "Greg Wrenn". The Rumpus.net. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  11. Woodroof, Martha. "The Peace of the Reefs". Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  12. http://smartishpace.com, Smartish Pace. "Reviews | Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". www.smartishpace.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
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