Grooms’ stories and poems have been published in literary magazines such as Callaloo, African American Review, G.W. Review and Catalyst. He is the author of “Ice Poems,” “Bombingham” and “Trouble No More,” his first collection of stories, which earned him the 1996 Lillian Smith Award for Best Fiction.

Grooms teaches creative writing at Kennesaw State College in Georgia and also has taught at Emory University and Spelman College. He is a recipient of the Sokolov Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s program in creative writing, the department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766 or visit www.bama.ua.edu/~writing.