Patricia Grodd

Patricia Grodd received her BA degree from Kenyon College and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University in English literature and a degree in psychotherapy from New York University. Grodd is a licensed bibliotherapist and a member of the National Association of Poetry Therapy. She has taught poetry in a number of continuing adult education programs as well as programs serving populations in need, such as the homeless, mentally ill, incarcerated, and terminally ill. As a Wordsworth scholar and a Patron Trustee of the William Wordsworth Trust, she is involved in the development of the Trust in its use of archival material, lectures, and education.

In addition to having served on the Academy of American Poets and its Emeritus Circle, Grodd has served as a Trustee of The Kenyon Review, as well as the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), and actively works on behalf of PEN America. She is also the founder and sponsor of the annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, among the top young writer poetry prizes in the nation. A published poet, Grodd held senior executive positions in the fashion industry at Condé Nast, Ralph Lauren, and Paul Stuart earlier in her career.