Garth Greenwell is the author of a novella, Mitko, and a novel, What Belongs to You (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2016). Greenwell earned an undergraduate degree at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Washington University. After studying literature in the doctoral program at Harvard, Greenwell taught high school for several years in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Sofia, Bulgaria, where his blog, radio broadcasts, and interviews regarding the LGBT experience in that country drew much attention and admiration. The recipient of the 2000 Grolier Poetry Prize, and a Bread Loaf Fellowship in Poetry, Greenwell has published poetry and prose in Yale Review,[3]Boston Review,[4] Salmagundi, Michigan Quarterly Review,[5] and Poetry International, among other journals.
The readings are at 7 PM in 126 Voorhies Hall, and are free and open to the public.