Garrard Conley, author portrait
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Garrard Conley

Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. 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 is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University.
All the World Beside
Boy Erased

Surviving conversion therapy and finding who you are | Garrard Conley

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All the World Beside
Boy Erased

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Surviving conversion therapy and finding who you are | Garrard Conley

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