David Groff

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.consulting-editors.com/groff.htm |title=Book Editors Alliance |website=Consulting-editors.com |access-date=2016-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430000824/http://www.consulting-editors.com/groff.htm |archive-date=2010-04-30 }}

Groff's work was published in American Poetry Review, Bloom, Chicago Review, Christopher Street, Confrontation, The Georgia Review,{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xg0AAAAIAAJ&q=David+Groff |title=The Georgia Review |website=Books.google.com |date=2007-05-24 |access-date=2016-10-18}} The Iowa Review, Men on Men 2,{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ceZZAAAAMAAJ&q=David+Groff |title=Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction |author=George Stambolian |website=Books.google.com |date=2008-02-29 |access-date=2016-10-18}} Men on Men 2000,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOdZAAAAMAAJ&q=David+Groff |title=Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium |date=2000-01-01 |isbn=978-0-452-28082-3 |access-date=2016-10-18|last1=Bergman |first1=David |last2=Woelz |first2=Karl |publisher=Plume }} Missouri Review,{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDGxAAAAIAAJ&q=David+Groff |title=The Missouri Review |website=Books.google.com |date=2008-06-12 |access-date=2016-10-18}} New York, North American Review, Northwest Review, Out, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Poz, Prairie Schooner,{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTmxAAAAIAAJ&q=David+Groff |title=The Prairie Schooner |website=Books.google.com |date=2008-06-13 |access-date=2016-10-18 |last1=Wimberly |first1=Lowry Charles }} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/08/12/david-groff-takes-home-the-2012-louise-bogan-award/|title=David Groff Takes Home the Louise Bogan Award|last=Denza|first=Diana|date=August 12, 2012|website=Lambda Literary|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219052308/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/08/12/david-groff-takes-home-the-2012-louise-bogan-award/ |archive-date=2015-02-19 |access-date=October 16, 2019}}

He is currently an editor under the agency of Rob Weisbach Creative Management.{{Cite web|url=https://www.robweisbach.com/the-team|title=The Team|website=Rob Weisbach Creative Management|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-17}}

He is openly gay.{{citation |first=David |last=Groff |title=Yawp: Why National Poetry Month is Like the Gay Male S&M Activists Leather Night |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/04/05/yawp-why-national-poetry-month-is-like-the-gay-male-sm-activists-leather-night/ |date=5 April 2010 |access-date=12 April 2010 |periodical=Lambda Literary |archive-date=12 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412035206/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/04/05/yawp-why-national-poetry-month-is-like-the-gay-male-sm-activists-leather-night/ }}

Bibliography

2001 National Poetry Series, for Theory of Devolution

=Poetry=

{{cite book| title=Theory of Devolution| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2loFJFZAHYC&q=David+Groff&pg=PP1| publisher=University of Illinois Press| year=2002| isbn=978-0-252-07086-0 }}

=Non-fiction=

{{cite book| title=The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood | url=https://archive.org/details/crisisofdesire00robi| url-access=registration | quote=David Groff. |author=Robin Hardy |author2=David Groff | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| year=1999 | isbn=978-0-395-74544-1 }}
{{cite book| title=An American Family| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TzwTMSZSV18C&q=David+Groff|author=Michael Galluccio |author2=Jon Galluccio |author3=David Groff | publisher=Macmillan| year=2002| isbn=978-0-312-28887-7 }}
{{cite book| title=Out facts: just about everything you need to know about gay and lesbian life| publisher=Universe Publishing| year=1997| isbn=978-0-7893-0083-6 }}