Greg Mania’s words have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, PAPER, and more. He is also a contributing editor to BOMB magazine, hosts The Rumpus’s #ShowUsYourDesk, and co-hosts Empty Trash, a reading series in Los Angeles. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public (CLASH Books, 2020), continues to find its readers in the How Am I Still Alive? Section of your local bookstore, while he currently works on his debut novel.

He spends his days writing and hanging out with his boyfriend, the poet and TV writer Tommy Pico, whose commitment to the bit rivals his own.

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