Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of “What Belongs to You,” which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by more than fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. Greenwell’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published his newest book, “Cleanness,” in January 2020. “Cleanness” was excerpted in The New York Times, and praised by many renowned writers, including Alexander Chee, who remarked “This could only be the work of a master.” Greenwell lives in Iowa City.