Writer | Illustrator | Teacher

Bio

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Brian Gresko (they/he) is a writer, illustrator, and educator based in Brooklyn. They identify as white, queer, and gender non-conforming/nonbinary. Their work has appeared on Slate, Longreads, The Literary Hub, The Atlantic, The Rumpus, the L.A. Review of Books, and in The Sun Magazine and Poets & Writers magazine, among numerous other publications. In 2014, Gresko edited the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood (Penguin). They co-run the esteemed Pete's Reading Series in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and during the 2020 quarantine hosted The Antibody, an online reading and conversation series. For over ten years, Brian has led workshops and classes at organizations including Catapult, Sackett Street Writing Workshops, The Center for Fiction, Jericho Writers, and the New York Public Library. They are a founding member of Writing Co-Lab, an artist-owned teaching cooperative. Brian received an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and graduated from Oberlin College as a first-generation college student with a self-designed, cross-disciplinary major entitled "Narrativity in Film."

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Recent Publications

Brian’s profile of Garth Greenwell, “A Triumph of a Heart,” appears on the cover of the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. See Brian and Garth in a follow-up conversation here

Transvestite Freak, an essay about being genderqueer and nonbinary as a teen in the 1990’s, appears in the September issue of The Sun Magazine

Up on Electric Literature, Brian interviewed Laura van den Berg about her latest novel, State of Paradise

Pete’s Reading Series

Brian appears onstage at Pete’s Candy Store every third Thursday of the month, from September to June. To learn about upcoming shows, follow the series on Instagram