Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry (Non-Degree Study), Stanford University

M.F.A., Writing (Poetry), Washington University in St. Louis

B.A., English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Field

Greg Wrenn is the author of Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis, an evidence-based account of his turning to coral reefs and psychedelic plants to heal from complex PTSD, and Centaur, which was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. ​His 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.

A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, 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. 
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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 is at work on a novel.

Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis (Regalo Press, 2024)
Centaur (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)
Off the Fire Road (Green Tower Press, 2009)
Starry Clay (poetry collection submitted to publishers)

Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, 2021
Writer-in-Residence, James Merrill House, Stonington, CT, 2021
Six-Week Residency Award, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, Florida, 2019-2020
Drew Darrow Memorial Poet, Stadler Center Writers Series, Bucknell University, 2015
Visiting Writer, Emerging Poets Festival, Franklin & Marshall College, 2014
Debut Poets Roundup, Poets & Writers, January/February 2014
Axton Visiting Writer, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2013
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, Poetry Society of America, 2013
Margaret Bridgman Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2012
Lyric Poetry Award, Poetry Society of America, 2012
Brittingham Prize for Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2010-2012
Full Fellowship and Artist-in-Residence, Spiro Arts, 2010
Artist’s Grant and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, 2009
Full Scholarships, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2007-2009
Third-Year Writing Fellowship for Poetry, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008