Kelle Groom

Kelle Groom is the author of three poetry collections: Five Kingdoms, Luckily, and Underwater City. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2010, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among other publications, and she is the recipient of two Florida Book Awards and grant awards from the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs, New Forms Florida, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. A contributing editor for the Florida Review, Kelle has taught writing at the University of Central Florida and has been a Norma Millay Ellis Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts, a William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and has been awarded residency fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.