Stephen Bloom

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Stephen G. Bloom is an American journalist and professor of Journalism Studies at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

Bloom studied at University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.A. in 1973.

Bloom has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sacramento Bee and the Dallas Morning News. He also served as the national news editor at the Latin America Daily Post.

Bloom served as press secretary and chief speech writer for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan during 1992.

Bloom has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Society and Medicine.

Bloom has also written a number of short stories, and co-written a play called Shoedog. He wrote the book Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, a look at a Chabad hasidic community that moved into a small Midwestern town. He is currently working on the Oxford Project; a series of now and then portraits and short essays of the people of Oxford Iowa.

He is married with a son.

[edit] Bibliography

Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, Stephen G. Bloom, Harcourt, 2000.
Inside the Writer's Mind: Writing Narrative Journalism, Stephen G. Bloom, Iowa State Press, 2002.
The Swedish Wife in The Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life, 2003.