About the Author
Greg Garrett is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Free Bird (chosen by Publishers’ Weekly and the Rocky Mountain News as one of the most promising fiction debuts of 2002), Cycling, and Shame, the memoirs Crossing Myself and No Idea, and nonfiction books including The Gospel according to Hollywood, Holy Superheroes, Stories from the Edge: A Theology of Grief, and his latest, We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel according to U2. A past winner of regional and national prizes for fiction and nonfiction, Greg is also a major writer for “The Voice,” a contemporary language Bible for the emerging church, and a frequent contributor to The Thoughtful Christian.
Greg has taught (creative writing, literature, film, and theology) at Baylor University for the past twenty years; he is Professor of English there, and has twice won university-wide teaching awards. His students have gone on to success as writers, teachers, scholars, and leaders in the Church. His own vocational service to the Church is as Writer in Residence for the priests and pastors in training at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (where he earned his M.Div.), and as a licensed lay preacher based at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. Greg is also a frequent teacher, speaker, and workshop and retreat leader across the United States and overseas. When he is not traveling, Greg lives in Austin with his sons Jake and Chandler and near his sweetheart, Martha. He loves movies, fiction, comics, music, the outdoors, and Jesus.The other Jesus, that is.
You may contact Greg about readings, lectures, teaching, etc. at Greg_Garrett at baylor.edu
