Amy Bloom
writer
Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and has been a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for *The New Yorker*, *The New York Times Magazine*, *The Atlantic Monthly*, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. She lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.