![]() ![]() Grooms has received many awards for his writings: the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction (twice), the Sokolov Scholarship of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Lamar lectureship of Wesleyan College, and an Arts Administration Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Grooms is now an instructor teaching creative writing, along with other English and literature courses, at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, he found the civil rights movement during the 1960s as a basis for his writing. ![]() He moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1988 after first finishing graduate school and then marrying Pamela B. Grooms has always been a writer, but he never considered himself one until graduate school. He has taught at a variety of schools: Clark State University, University of Georgia, University of Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa, and Kennesaw State University. He strived for a more advanced education and graduated in 1984 from George Mason University with a Masters of Fine Arts in English. Graduating in 1978 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Anthony Grooms received a Bachelor of Arts in theatre and speech. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |