Garth Greenwell

Who is Garth Greenwell?

Garth Greenwell is an American poet, author, literary critic, and educator. His first book, Mitko, won the Miami University Press Novella Prize. His work has appeared in Yale Review, Boston Review, Salmagundi, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry International, among others.

He has received the Grolier Prize, the Rella Lossy Award, an award from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, and the Bechtel Prize from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He was the 2008 John Atherton Scholar for Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Greenwell is currently an Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.