Kelle Groom

Kelle Groom is the author of a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), a Barnes & Noble Discover selection and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Groom’s four poetry collections include Spill, Five Kingdoms, and Luckily from Anhinga Press, and Underwater City (University Press of Florida). Her poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Groom’s honors include an NEA Literature Fellowship in Prose. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe, and director of education programs at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.