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.
Boy Erased

Surviving conversion therapy and finding who you are | Garrard Conley

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Boy Erased

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Surviving conversion therapy and finding who you are | Garrard Conley

Books for Black History Month

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