About the Creative Writing Coordinator
A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Greg Wrenn is the author of the eco-memoir Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, an evidence-based account of his turning to coral reefs and psychedelic plants to heal from childhood trauma, and Centaur, which National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes awarded the Brittingham Prize.
Greg's work has appeared in HuffPost, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, LitHub, Writer's Digest, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere.
He has received awards and fellowships from the James Merrill House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Poetry Society of America, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Spiro Arts Center. On his Mothership book tour, he spoke to audiences around the world about his work, including at Yale School of Medicine, the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Vancouver Island University. Greg has also been on numerous podcasts, including Levi Chambers's PRIDE, and was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas.
As an associate English professor at James Madison University, he teaches creative nonfiction, poetry, and environmental literature, and directs the JMU Creative Writing Minor. He has also taught in the low-residency MFA Program at Bennington Writing Seminars and currently is an instructor in the Memoir Certificate Program at Stanford Continuing Studies. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Greg Wrenn
Coordinator of the Creative Writing Minor & Associate Professor of English
Lauren K. Alleyne
Executive Director, Furious Flower Poetry Center
Samar Fitzgerald
Instructor
Becca Klaver
Assistant Professor
Thomas Martin
Instructor
Erica Cavanagh
Professor
Jason Baltazar
Assistant Professor
Majo Delgadillo
Assistant Professor
