Kelle Groom is the author of the memoirs How to Live and I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (B&N Discover Great New Writers and The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice), as well as four poetry collections. Groom’s work appears in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares. Groom is an NEA Fellow and a nonfiction editor at AGNI.