(The Lillian Smith Book Award is named for Georgia writer Lillian Smith and administered by the Southern Regional Council.) His stories and poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, George Washington Review, and Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement. Grooms is the author of a collection of poetry, Ice Poems (1988) a collection of stories, Trouble No More (1995), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 1996 and two novels, Bombingham (2001), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 2002, and The Vain Conversation (2018). He is currently a professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University. In 1994 Grooms cofounded the Georgia Writers Association with writer Geri Taran and literary agent Susan L. Jackson, an administrative judge, and moved to Atlanta in 1988 to teach, where he found a subject for his writings in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. After graduate school, he married Pamela B. Later he studied at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he developed a professional interest in creative writing and graduated in 1984 with an M.F.A. His focus was playwriting, and student theater groups produced several of his plays. Grooms graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1978 with a B.A. Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
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