Anthony Grooms (b. 1955) is a professor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University. From the small town of Louisa, Virginia, he attended a then-recently integrated white public school as part of the Freedom of Choice plan, an experience that has influenced much of his writing. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Ice Poems (1988), a collection of short stories, Trouble No More (1995), and a novel, Bombingham (2001), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 2002. In 1994, he cofounded the Georgia Writers Association.