Bio
Kelle Groom's newest book is How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays (Tupelo Press, October 2023). Her memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster 2011 / pb 2012), is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, a Library Journal Best Memoir, Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month, Oprah O Magazine selection, and Oxford American Editor's Pick. Her four poetry collections are Spill, (Anhinga Press), Five Kingdoms (Anhinga), Luckily (Anhinga), and Underwater City (University Press of Florida). Her work has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among others.
A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in Prose and Massachusetts Cultural Council
Fellow in Nonfiction, Groom's honors also include fellowships from Black Mountain Institute,
University of Nevada-Las Vegas in partnership with the Library of Congress, Civitella Ranieri,
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, James Merrill House, Millay Colony for the Arts, Atlantic Center
for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, American Antiquarian Society, and Ucross
Foundation, as well as two Florida Book Awards, a State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs grant,
and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant. Groom was previously Distinguished Writer-in-
Residence and Assistant Professor of Humanities at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe. Former
poetry editor of The Florida Review, she is now a nonfiction editor for AGNI Magazine. A long-time
resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts where she directed programs at the Fine Arts Work
Center, she now lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida where she is director of communications and
foundation relations for Atlantic Center for the Arts.
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