David Groff

For his friend the late Robin Hardy, he completed The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood  (Houghton Mifflin/University of Minnesota Press) and, with Jon and Michael Galluccio, wrote An American Family (St. Martin’s Press).  He is also the editor of Out Facts and co-editor of Whitman’s Men: Walt Whitman’s Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers  (Universe/Rizzoli).

David has spoken about writing and publishing at many different venues, including the New School, the University of Houston, Poets House, Out Professionals, and the OutWrite conferences. He has led his “Connecting with the Reader” seminars, about writing and getting published, at venues including the Florida Center for the Literary Arts.  One of his essays has been reprinted frequently in textbooks for college writing courses. His essays on editing and publishing have appeared in Fiction Writers Market, Lambda Book Report, InsightOutBooks.com, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Writer, and Writers Digest.

David has taught literature at the University of Iowa, where he received his MFA in poetry and his MA in expository writing.  He has taught publishing courses at Rutgers and NYU and creative writing at William Paterson University.  He is also a writing teacher and adjudicator for National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which discovers and selects young writers as potential Presidential Scholars in the Arts.

His book Theory of Devolution, selected by Mark Doty for the National Poetry Series, was published in 2002 by the University of Illinois Press and nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award.

His work has been 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.