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Originally, I shared news here from my new book HOW TO LIVE: A Memoir in Essays (Tupelo 2023). The Continuous Life (inspired by Mark Strand) explores how, as writers, we find our way forward from poem to poem, to essays & stories & books.

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About Kelle Groom

Poet/memoirist: NEA Fellow, MCC Fellow, Florida Book Award, award-winning memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), 4 poetry collections, recently Spill (Anhinga). NEW: memoir-in-essays, How to Live (Tupelo Press, Oct 2023)

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