Kelle Groom is the author of four poetry collections, a memoir, and an essay collection. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, and recipient of two Florida Book Awards in poetry, Groom has served as nonfiction editor of AGNI Magazine and poetry editor of The Florida Review. Her work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Groom was previously distinguished writer-in-residence and assistant professor of humanities at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, and director of programs at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She now lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.