A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Greg Wrenn is the author of the forthcoming Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis (Regalo Press 2024), an evidence-based account of his turning to coral reefs and ayahuasca to heal from childhood trauma, and Centaur (U of Wisconsin Press 2013), which National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes awarded the Brittingham Prize.
Greg's work has appeared in The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. 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.
As an associate English professor, he teaches environmental literature and creative writing at James Madison University, where he weaves climate change science into literary studies. He also teaches poetry writing through Stanford Continuing Studies. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Greg is currently working on Homesick, his second poetry collection. 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 lives in the mountains of Virginia with his husband and their growing family of trees.
Photo Credit: Matt Mendelsohn
Greg's work has appeared in The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. 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.
As an associate English professor, he teaches environmental literature and creative writing at James Madison University, where he weaves climate change science into literary studies. He also teaches poetry writing through Stanford Continuing Studies. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Greg is currently working on Homesick, his second poetry collection. 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 lives in the mountains of Virginia with his husband and their growing family of trees.
Photo Credit: Matt Mendelsohn