Garth Greenwell was born on March 19,1978 and is an American novelist, literary critic, and educator.
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Garth Greenwell has published the novella Mitko, as well as stories and criticism in The Paris Review, A Public Space, The Yale Review, The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
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Garth Greenwell was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
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Garth Greenwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 19,1978.
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Garth Greenwell attended duPont Manual High School in Louisville and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1996.
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Garth Greenwell went on to study 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.
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Garth Greenwell then received an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St Louis, and an MA in English and American Literature from Harvard University, where he spent three years doing Ph.
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Early in his career, Greenwell taught English at Greenhills School, a private high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria; the oldest American educational institution outside the US.
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Garth Greenwell was the 2008 John Atherton Scholar for Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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Garth Greenwell's first novella, Mitko, won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award as well as the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction.
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Garth Greenwell has written on Andrew Holleran, Raven Leilani, Pedro Lemebel, and Georgi Gospodinov, among others.