Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom is an American writer of novels, short stories and articles, currently based in Connecticut. Bloom is trained as a social worker and psychotherapist and wrote for Lifetime Television show State of Mind, which examined the professional lives of psychiatrists. She has been nominated for a number of prestigious book awards and has won a National Magazine Award. Her most recent publication is Where the God of Love Hangs Out (2009), a collection of short stories about which More Magazine said: ‘If you delight in the densely detailed, wryly funny, provocative fiction of Amy Bloom, her new story collection will not disappoint… To read Bloom is to fall in love – with her characters and with the magic that language can make’.

Read her interviews in the Jewish Chronicles and in the Guardian by Emma Brockes and Liz Hoggard.