Greg Wrenn is an American poet and nonfiction writer from
Jacksonville, Florida
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. He lives in
Harrisonburg, Virginia
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, where he is an assistant professor of English at
James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the institution was renamed Madison Coll ...
. He received an AB from Harvard University in 2003 and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008. At Stanford University from 2010-2016 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry and a Jones Lecturer.
His first book of poems, ''Centaur'', was awarded the Brittingham Prize and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2013. His essays and poems have appeared in ''The New Republic'', ''New England Review'', ''The Rumpus'', ''
Beloit Poetry Journal
The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College. Wrenn, a certified scuba diver, writes essays primarily about the ocean and is at work on a memoir about the coral reefs of the
Raja Ampat
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The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being attested fr ...
archipelago.
Career
Awards
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Brittingham Prize in Poetry
The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition.
The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is ...
for ''Centaur'' (2013)
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Stegner Fellowship
The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...
, Stanford University (2010-2012)
Bibliography
* ''Centaur'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)
* ''Off the Fire Road'' (Green Tower Press, 2008)