Kelle Groom

Biography

Kelle Groom is the author of How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays (Tupelo, 2023), I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2012), a B&N Discover Great New Writers selection and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and four poetry collections, most recently Spill (Anhinga, 2017). A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mass Cultural Council Fellow, and two-time Florida Book Award winner, Groom’s work appears in AGNI, the New England Review, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Ploughshares.

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