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Garrard Conley

Garrard Conley
Garrard Conley’s debut memoir, Boy Erased was released by Riverhead Books this month. Conley’s fiction and nonfiction can be found in The Common, The Madison Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Elizabeth Kostova Foundation writers’ conferences. He currently teaches English literature at the American College of Sofia and promotes LGBTQ equality in Sofia, Bulgaria.


How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

Garrard Conley: "I wrote and rewrote again. I wrote in doubt and fear."
May 11, 2016  By Garrard Conley
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