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. Groff's work was published in
American Poetry Review,
Bloom,
Chicago Review,
Christopher Street,
Confrontation,
The Georgia Review,
The Iowa Review,
Men on Men 2,
Men on Men 2000,
Missouri Review,
New York,
North American Review,
Northwest Review,
Out,
Poetry,
Poetry Daily,
Poetry Northwest,
Poz,
Prairie Schooner,
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. He is currently an editor under the agency of Rob Weisbach Creative Management. He is openly
gay. ==Bibliography==