David Groff is an American poet, writer, and independent editor.

Biography

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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]

He is openly gay.[9]

Bibliography

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Poetry

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  • Theory of Devolution. University of Illinois Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-252-07086-0.

Non-fiction

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References

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  1. ^ "Book Editors Alliance". Consulting-editors.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  2. ^ "The Georgia Review". Books.google.com. 2007-05-24. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  3. ^ George Stambolian (2008-02-29). "Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  4. ^ Bergman, David; Woelz, Karl (2000-01-01). Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium. Plume. ISBN 978-0-452-28082-3. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  5. ^ "The Missouri Review". Books.google.com. 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  6. ^ Wimberly, Lowry Charles (2008-06-13). "The Prairie Schooner". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  7. ^ Denza, Diana (August 12, 2012). "David Groff Takes Home the Louise Bogan Award". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  8. ^ "The Team". Rob Weisbach Creative Management. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  9. ^ Groff, David (5 April 2010), "Yawp: Why National Poetry Month is Like the Gay Male S&M Activists Leather Night", Lambda Literary, archived from the original on 12 April 2010, retrieved 12 April 2010
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