{"id":57086,"date":"2014-02-03T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=57086"},"modified":"2014-02-03T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:24:09","slug":"alumna-receives-writing-grant-national-endowment-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/alumna-receives-writing-grant-national-endowment-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna receives Writing Grant from National Endowment for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF almuna Kelle Groom recently was one of just 38 writers to receive a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n

Groom received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing\/Poetry in 2008 and has been making waves in the literary world ever since. The fellowship is just the latest in a line of writing accolades Groom has earned over her career.<\/p>\n

Her 2011 memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl<\/em>, was featured in \u201cO, The Oprah Magazine,\u201d \u201cThe New York Times\u201d Book Review editor\u2019s choice, and was a \u201cLiterary Journal\u201d best memoir of 2011.<\/p>\n

This spring, Groom will be the James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence in Stonington, Conn. The residency program offers poets and writers an opportunity to work in poet James Merrill’s apartment for 4\u00bd months and a stipend for the course of the stay.<\/p>\n

In regards to the NEA fellowship, Groom said she is honored and especially appreciative of the recognition because it reinforces confidence in her work and provides her with a monetary award that will allow her to devote the next year to writing her second nonfiction book.<\/p>\n

Groom also earned her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s from UCF.<\/p>\n

\u201cUCF gave me an education and a community, supporting me as a young writer,\u201d Groom said. \u201cI was lucky enough to be a student in UCF\u2019s new MFA program, an environment that respected both the worth of poetry and my own individual voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Groom credits the support of UCF\u2019s faculty, in particular professor Don Stap, for their support and encouragement of her work and \u201cthe feeling that these people were on my side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having just finished her fourth poetry collection, Letter from Aphrodite<\/em>, Groom is working on her latest nonfiction book, a series of short stories, and her fifth collection of poems titled Spill<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Groom encourages young, aspiring writers to constantly be reading. \u201cBe part of a community of writers whose work you love and support. Stay close to them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For more on Groom\u2019s work, visit her website at http:\/\/www.kellegroom.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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