Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of three books of fiction, most recently Small Rain , which won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first novel, What Belongs to You , won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second book, Cleanness , was a New York Times Notable Book and was nominated for several awards, including the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and France’s Prix Sade. It was named a Best Book of 2020 by The New Yorker , Time , The Washington Post , and over thirty other publications. His books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. With R.O. Kwon, Greenwell co-edited the anthology Kink: Stories , a New York Times Notable Book and National Bestseller. With Idra Novey, he is the co-translator of Luis Muñoz's One Moment , published by Washington Square Press in 2026. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Vursell Award for exceptional prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Greenwell lives in Iowa City.