

Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, Cleanness, and Small Rain. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among other journals, and his nonfiction has appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Yale Review. He writes regularly about culture for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Book Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Iowa City and New York, where he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.