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  Greg Wrenn

NONFICTION

SAMPLE ESSAYS
"Paddle" in The Georgia Review
     First chapter of memoir: turning to coral reefs to heal from childhood trauma

"Purple" in Kenyon Review
     The beauty of coral reefs as a healing balm

"Seas of Change" in The American Scholar
     Raja Ampat's reefs have withstood collapse—but for how long?

"Trees" in The Southeast Review (nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize)
     A maple tree, the multiverse, and time travel

"Innocence"​ in Kenyon Review (selected as Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016)
     A beloved painting by Agnes Martin and a coral reef in Palau

"Otter" in The Rumpus
     Queer self-understanding and wild otters

"Ice" in The Southern Review
     Vulnerability and an ice moon of Saturn

​"Beacons" in Prairie Schooner
     What does poetic vision really mean?

"One Whale Shark Eye" in Mudlark
     Further discussion of "The 23rd-Century Nature Poem"

"The 23rd-Century Nature Poem" in The American Poetry Review
      What kind of nature poems, given the reality of climate change, ring hollow?

"Reef Album" in Essay Daily
      A craft essay on creative nonfiction as spiritual, civilizational surgery
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“'Immortality on Their Faces': The Persistence of Autobiography of Red" in AGNI
      Why we're still savoring Anne Carson's masterpiece


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