Greg Wrenn

Greg Wrenn is an American writer from Jacksonville, Florida. He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he is an associate professor of English at James Madison University. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. From 2010-2016 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry and then a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

His first book, Centaur, was selected by National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes for the Brittingham Prize. His essays and poems have appeared in Al Jazeera, 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. Wrenn, a certified scuba diver, writes essays primarily about the ocean, including the coral reefs of the Raja Ampat archipelago. His nonfiction book, Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, is forthcoming in 2024 and is about turning to coral reefs, forests, and psychedelic plants to heal from childhood trauma.

Awards

 * Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University (2010-2012)
 * Brittingham Prize in Poetry for Centaur (2013)