David Groff Explained

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

Biography

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.

Bibliography

• 2001 National Poetry Series, for Theory of Devolution

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

• Book: The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood . registration . David Groff. . . David Groff . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1999 . 978-0-395-74544-1 .
• Book: An American Family. Michael Galluccio . Jon Galluccio . David Groff . Macmillan. 2002. 978-0-312-28887-7 .
• Book: Out facts: just about everything you need to know about gay and lesbian life. Universe Publishing. 1997. 978-0-7893-0083-6 .

External links

• "David Groff", Consulting Editor's Alliance

Notes and References

1. Web site: Book Editors Alliance . Consulting-editors.com . 2016-10-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100430000824/http://www.consulting-editors.com/groff.htm . 2010-04-30 .
2. Web site: The Georgia Review . Books.google.com . 2007-05-24 . 2016-10-18.
3. Web site: Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction . George Stambolian . Books.google.com . 2008-02-29 . 2016-10-18.
4. Book: Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium . 2000-01-01 . 978-0-452-28082-3 . 2016-10-18. Bergman . David . Woelz . Karl . Plume .
5. Web site: The Missouri Review . Books.google.com . 2008-06-12 . 2016-10-18.
6. Web site: The Prairie Schooner . Books.google.com . 2008-06-13 . 2016-10-18 . Wimberly . Lowry Charles .
7. Web site: David Groff Takes Home the Louise Bogan Award. Denza. Diana. August 12, 2012. Lambda Literary. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150219052308/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/08/12/david-groff-takes-home-the-2012-louise-bogan-award/ . 2015-02-19 . October 16, 2019.
8. Web site: The Team. Rob Weisbach Creative Management. en-US. 2019-10-17.