Greg Wrenn

{{short description|American poet}}{{Infobox writer

| name = Greg Wrenn

| image = Greg Wrenn introducing Garrard Conley at James Madison University (March 2023).jpg

| caption = Greg Wrenn introducing Garrard Conley at James Madison University

| occupation = Writer, professor

| notable_works = Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, Centaur

| awards = Stegner Fellowship, Brittingham Prize

| website = {{url|gregwrenn.com}}

| genre = Memoir, environmental nonfiction, poetry

}}

Greg Wrenn is an American writer from Jacksonville, Florida.{{Cite news|url=https://uoflwritingcenter.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/how-i-write-greg-wrenn/|title=How I Write: Greg Wrenn — Poet|date=2014-01-22|work=UofL Writing Center|access-date=2018-01-17|language=en-US}} He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he is an associate professor of English at James Madison University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gregwrenn.com/bio.html|title=Bio|website=Greg Wrenn|access-date=2018-01-17}} He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gregwrenn.com/cv.html|title=CV|website=Greg Wrenn|access-date=2018-01-17}} From 2010-2016 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry and then a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.{{Cite web|url=http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/2011-stegner-fellows/attachment/greg-wrenn|title=Greg Wrenn « Stanford Creative Writing Program|website=creativewriting.stanford.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-16}}

His first book, Centaur, was selected by National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes for the Brittingham Prize.{{Cite book|title=UW Press - : Centaur Greg Wrenn|isbn=9780299294441 |url=https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5149.htm|last1=Wrenn |first1=Greg |date=17 May 2013 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press }} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jmu.edu/english/people/full-time%20faculty/Wrenn%20Greg.shtml|title=Greg Wrenn|website=www.jmu.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-01-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_wrenn_nature.php|title=Poetry Daily Prose Feature - Greg Wrenn: The 23rd-Century Nature Poem|website=poems.com|access-date=2018-01-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-summer/selections/greg-wrenn-656342/|title=Innocence by Greg Wrenn {{!}} Kenyon Review Online|website=www.kenyonreview.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-17}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/112854/homeworld-poem-greg-wrenn|title=Homeworld: A Poem by Greg Wrenn|magazine=New Republic|access-date=2018-01-17|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=http://therumpus.net/author/greg-wrenn/|title=Greg Wrenn|website=The Rumpus.net|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-17}} Wrenn, a certified scuba diver, writes essays primarily about the ocean, including the coral reefs of the Raja Ampat archipelago.{{Cite news |last=Woodroof |first=Martha |title=The Peace of the Reefs |language=en |url=http://wmra.org/post/peace-reefs#stream/0 |access-date=2018-01-17}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Greg Wrenn {{!}} Al Jazeera News {{!}} Today's latest from Al Jazeera |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/author/greg-wrenn |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Greg Wrenn |url=https://whatiftomorrow.org/tomorrows-1/greg-wrenn |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=What If {{!}} Tomorrow |language=en-US}}