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Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belong to You, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for several other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and A Public Space. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming.


Garth Greenwell on Writing Fiction like a Poet

"I did, in a weird way, write a novel like a poem."
March 18, 2022  By Garth Greenwell
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Garth Greenwell on What It Means to Live the Writer’s Life

Advice and Wisdom from His Bennington College Commencement Speech
March 6, 2019  By Garth Greenwell
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Kate Chopin vs. Philip Roth

Judge Garth Greenwell Picks the Winner!
April 1, 2016  By Garth Greenwell
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Zora Neale Hurston vs. D. H. Lawrence

Judge Garth Greenwell On Female Passivity and Over-the-Top Sex Metaphors
March 31, 2016  By Garth Greenwell
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