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Kelle Groom
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Kelle Groom is the author of the memoir-in-essays How to Live (Tupelo Press, 2023); the memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2011), a Barnes & Noble Discover selection and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; and four poetry collections, including Spill (Anhinga Press, 2017) and Five Kingdoms (Anhinga, 2010). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Poetry. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe, and is director of communications and foundation relations at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Se served as nonfiction editor of AGNI from 2022 to 2023. (updated 1/2024)

AGNI has published the following work:

Essays
Postcards of the Night Sky
AGNI 95 Print Only
Essays
Call Yourself Alive
AGNI 89 Print Only
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