Amy Bloom

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Amy Bloom (born 1953) is an American writer. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.


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[edit] Biography

Trained as a social worker, Bloom has practiced psychotherapy and is currently a part-time lecturer of Creative Writing at the department of English at Yale University.[1]. Although not a psychologist, her involvement with psychotherapy played a role in writing the Lifetime Television network TV show, State of Mind, which takes a look at the professional lives of psychiatrists. Bloom is listed as one of the writers for the series and a co-executive producer [2]. Bloom received her B.A. from Wesleyan University, and a M.S.W. (Masters of Social Work) from Smith College.[3]

She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition to novels, Bloom has written articles in periodicals including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon.com.[4]. Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories and several other anthologies and has won a National Magazine Award.[5].

Bloom, who is bisexual,[6] is divorced and has two daughters and a son. She resides in Connecticut.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Fiction

  • Come to Me: Stories (1993) (short stories)
  • Love Invents Us (1997) (novel)
  • A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories (2000) (short stories)
  • Away (2007) (novel)

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude (2002) (Psychology)

[edit] Screenplays, teleplays and television shows

[edit] References

  1. ^ Department of English, Yale University, Amy Bloom Faculty Page, http://www.yale.edu/english/profiles/bloom_a.html
  2. ^ Amy Bloom at IMDb, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2319943/
  3. ^ Speaking of Stories: Amy Bloom, http://www.speakingofstories.org/Author%20Bios/amy_bloom.htm
  4. ^ Department of English, Yale University, Amy Bloom Faculty Page, http://www.yale.edu/english/profiles/bloom_a.html
  5. ^ Amy Bloom, About State of Mind, Lifetime TV, http://www.lifetimetv.com/on-tv/shows/state-mind/about
  6. ^ Afterellen.com retrieved December 13 2007

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