Garrard Conley

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Garrard Conley is the author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin, 2016), a New York Times bestseller adapted into a major motion picture, and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin, 2024).

Biography

Garrard Conley is the author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin, 2016), a New York Times bestseller adapted into a major motion picture, and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin, 2024). He is the co-creator of the podcast UnErased and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Time, among others, and he has held residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo.

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