[1] Grooms is now a professor at Kennesaw State University, near Atlanta, Georgia, and teaches creative writing and other English courses.
[1] Graduating in 1978 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Anthony Grooms received a Bachelor of Arts in theatre and speech.
[1] Grooms is now an instructor teaching creative writing, along with other English and literature courses, at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
[1][3] In 2006, the Georgia Center of the Book chose two of Grooms’ published works, Ice Poems and Trouble No More, for “Top 25 List of Books all Georgians should Read.”[3][4] Anthony Grooms is an author of published writings covering a variety of subjects, but his best-known piece of literature, Bombingham, is a novel addressing issues faced during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
[1] Mr. Grooms also wrote about his relationship with Pat Conroy in “The World Is Wider Than the Water It Holds” pp 248–252, Our Prince of Scribes, edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt, University of Georgia Press, 2018.