Brian Gresko (they/he) is a writer, illustrator, and educator based in Brooklyn. They identify as white, genderqueer, and polyamorous. 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). More recently, Brian self-published the book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing & Creativity, which you can purchase here. 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. They are a founding member and co-director 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 is curating the 100 Days of Creative Resistance program, which delivers an email a day of opposition and encouragement from a different author during each of the first 100 days of the current regime
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
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