Kelle Groom

Kelle Groom is the author of the memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), a Barnes & Noble Discover selection, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and a Library Journal Best Memoir. An NEA Fellow and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, Groom’s work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, New England Review, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, Plume, and Poetry, among others. Her four poetry collections include Underwater City (University Press of Florida), Luckily, Five Kingdoms, and Spill (Anhinga Press). Her forthcoming memoir-in-essays, How to Live will be published by Tupelo Press in October 2023. Groom is a nonfiction editor at AGNI Magazine and lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

 

  • More Nights Than Days and Turn It Up

    At the end of my street, they cut the trees.
  • Twelve Wings & Mother of the Holy Hope

    It was difficult to get a nurse.
  • THE LOST MUSEUM | GOODBYE TO A

    All my life stars falling on cars, the laundry
  • Mirror of the Invisible World

    The crown of a milk tooth in a curve of jaw