GREG WRENN is the author of Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, an evidence-based account of his turning to coral reefs and psychedelic plants to heal from childhood trauma, and Centaur (U of Wisconsin Press 2013), which National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes awarded the Brittingham Prize. ​His work has appeared in HuffPost, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, LitHub, Writer's Digest, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere.

A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he has received awards and fellowships from the James Merrill House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Poetry Society of America, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Spiro Arts Center.

On his Mothership book tour, he spoke to numerous audiences around the world, including at Yale School of Medicine, the University of Utah School of Medicine, Vancouver Island University, Franklin & Marshall College, UC Riverside, and the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Greg has also been on a variety of podcasts, including Levi Chambers's PRIDE, and was recently interviewed by Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas on NewsNation​ and by Jane Garvey on Times Radio (UK). 
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As an associate English professor at James Madison University, he teaches creative nonfiction, poetry, and environmental literature, and directs the JMU Creative Writing Minor. He has also taught creative nonfiction in the low-residency MFA program at Bennington College and poetry writing through Stanford Continuing Studies. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.

A student of ayahuasca since 2019, he is a trained yoga teacher and a PADI Advanced Open Water diver, having explored coral reefs around the world for over 25 years. He and his husband divide their time between the mountains of Virginia and Atlantic Beach, Florida.

Greg is currently at work on a novel and sending out Starry Clay, his second poetry collection.

You can read his full CV here.