Headshots

All the World Beside Author Photo (credit: Brandon Taylor)

Generic Author Photo 1 (credit: Colin Boyd Shafer)

Generic Author Photo 2 BW (credit: Colin Boyd Shafer)

book images

All the World Beside (2024)

Boy Erased (2016)

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bio (short)

Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin 2016) and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin 2024), as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America (Limina/Stitcher 2018). His work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, Time, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He currently serves as an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University.

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