“At its simplest, this is the story of a restless search for a place to be– a way to live– after a series of devastating events. But there’s nothing simple about it. Kelle Groom has created a marvel: a haunted, haunting, beautifully sustained dream of a book.”
—Joan Wickersham

Kelle Groom is 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, a Library Journal Best Memoir, Oprah O Magazine selection, and Oxford American Editor’s Pick. An NEA Fellow in Prose and 2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Nonfiction, Groom’s work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Spill (Anhinga Press). Groom is on the poetry and nonfiction faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe, nonfiction editor at AGNI, and director of communications and foundation relations at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

— Jessica Bryce Young, Orlando Weekly