Kelle Groom is the author of four poetry collections: Underwater City (University Press of Florida), Luckily, Five Kingdoms, and Spill (Anhinga Press); a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster) a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Library Journal Best Memoir; and How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays (Tupelo Press). An NEA Literature Fellow, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, recipient of two Florida Book Awards in poetry, Groom's work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, Poetry. She served as nonfiction editor of AGNI Magazine and poetry editor of The Florida Review. Groom's honors include fellowships from Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Library of Congress, Civitella Ranieri, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, James Merrill House, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ucross Foundation. Groom was previously Distinguished Writer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Humanities at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, and director of programs at Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.