Kelle Groom’s memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selection, Oprah O Magazine selection, and a Library Journal Best Memoir of 2011. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Five Kingdoms (Anhinga Press 2010), recognized in Entertainment Weekly‘s “Best New Poetry,” and winner of a Florida Book Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2010, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Groom’s flash fiction has appeared in The Southeast Review as a finalist in FSU’s “World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest.” She is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence (2012-2013) at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, where she is also on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
Story:
Jimmy Wasabi, Juan Juan and the Toaster Oven
Interview: Smoking With Kelle Groom
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.