Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. His third novel, Small Rain, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His critical writing appears widely, and he writes regularly about culture for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.