Anthony Grooms

Anthony Grooms was born in 1955 in Charlottesville, Virginia, and grew up in nearby rural Louisa County, where in 1967 he experienced the integration of public schools, an event that has contributed to a perspective on race and class that is evident in many of his writings.

His education at the College of William and Mary and George Mason University led him to a teaching career in Georgia, where since 1995 he has taught writing at Kennesaw State University. He the author of Ice Poems, a chapbook; Trouble No More: Stories;and Bombingham, a novel. His uncollected stories and poems have been published in Callaloo, African American Review, Crab Orchard Review, George Washington Review, and other literary journals.

Grooms is a Fulbright Fellow, a finalist for the Legacy Award from the Hurston-Wright Foundation, an Arts Administration Fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts, and the recipient of two Lillian Smith Prizes from the Southern Regional Council. Trouble No More was selected as the 2006 All Georgia Reads book.

Grooms lives with his wife and son in Atlanta.

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