Writers in the Sun invites you and your students to join us to celebrate a new book by UCF Alum Kelle Groom: How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays, Tupelo Press on Monday, October 2 at 3 p.m. in Trevor Colburn Hall 103. Groom will read from her new book, take questions, and do a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.
Kelle Groom is also 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, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, and two-time Florida Book Award winner, Groom’s work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, New England Review, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among others. Her four poetry collections include Underwater City (University Press of Florida), Luckily, Five Kingdoms, and Spill (Anhinga Press). Groom is former poetry editor of The Florida Review, and is currently a nonfiction editor at AGNI Magazine. She lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and is Director of Foundation Relations & Communications for Atlantic Center for the Arts, an international artists-in-residence program. You can learn more about Kelle’s work at http://www.kellegroom.com or https://kellegroom.substack.com/
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