David Groff is an American poet, writer, and independent editor.
Groff graduated from the University of Iowa, with an MFA, and MA. He has taught at University of Iowa, Rutgers University, and NYU, and at William Paterson University.
For the last eleven years, he has worked with literary and popular novelists, memoirists, journalists, and scientists whose books have been published by Atria, Bantam, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Little Brown, Miramax, Putnam, St. Martin's, Wiley, and other publishers. For twelve years he was an editor at Crown Publishing. [1]
Groff's work was published in American Poetry Review , Bloom, Chicago Review , Christopher Street , Confrontation, The Georgia Review , [2] The Iowa Review , Men on Men 2, [3] Men on Men 2000, [4] Missouri Review , [5] New York , North American Review , Northwest Review , Out , Poetry , Poetry Daily , Poetry Northwest , Poz , Prairie Schooner , [6] QW, Self , 7 Days, 7 Carmine, and Wigwag .
Groff was awarded the Louise Bogan Award by the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012 for his work, Clay. [7]
He is currently an editor under the agency of Rob Weisbach Creative Management. [8]
David Groff.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet" by Progressive. Additionally, she was one of the first women poets in America to write and publish poems discussing the topic of motherhood. In 2015, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2018, she was named the New York State Poet Laureate.
Lesléa Newman is an American author, editor, and feminist best known for the children's book Heather Has Two Mommies. Four of her young adult novels have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, making her one of the most celebrated authors in the category.
Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
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Alexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.
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James L. White was an American poet, editor and teacher.
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Sonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.
Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.
Nancy Vieira Couto is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry award.
Kristin Naca is a Latina and Fillipina American poet.
Jason Schneiderman is an American poet.
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Peter Dubé is a Canadian writer, who has published novels, short stories and essays. Originally from Montreal, he earned an MA from Concordia University's Creative Writing Program.
Greg Hewett is an American poet and professor. He has been awarded several fellowships and awards for his work, including the Thom Gunn Award.
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