AMY BLOOM

Amy Bloom is the author of a novel, Love Invents Us, and two collections of stories: Come to Me, nominated for a National Book Award, and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for 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, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.

"The Lonely Dove," An Introduction to Henry James’ The Wings of the Dove, Modern Library, Spring 2003 "Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages," Ploughshares, Fall 2002 "Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses," Atlantic Monthly, April 2002 "Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages," Ploughshares, Fall 2002 "Terrible Jane," An introduction to Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Modern Library, 2001 "The Story," Story, September 1999 [Best American Short Stories 2000] Foreword, Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don’t, and What We Find There, Beacon, 1999 "Night Vision," New Yorker, February 16, 1998 "The Gates Are Closing," Zoetrope: All-Story, Spring 1998 "Take My Hand," New Yorker, July 16, 1996 "The Body Lies," New Yorker, July 18, 1994 "Hold Tight," Writer’s Harvest, 1994; The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 2002 "Bad Form," New Yorker, July 26, 1993 "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines," American Fiction, Summer 1993; Symphony Space Selected Shorts, 1994 "Semper Fidelis," Antaeus, Spring 1993; Prize Stories 1994: The O. Henry Awards "When the Year Grows Old," Story, Winter 1992 "The Sight of You," Story, Summer 1992 "Sleepwalking," River City, Fall 1991; The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women, 1995 "Silver Water," Story, Autumn 1991; Best American Short Stories 1992; Symphony Space Selected Shorts, 1993; The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 1999 "Love Is Not a Pie," Room of One’s Own, 1990; Best American Short Stories 1991; Mirabella, 1993

"The Lonely Dove," An Introduction to Henry James’ The Wings of the Dove, Modern Library, Spring 2003 "Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages," Ploughshares, Fall 2002 "Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses," Atlantic Monthly, April 2002 "Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages," Ploughshares, Fall 2002 "Terrible Jane," An introduction to Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Modern Library, 2001 "The Story," Story, September 1999 [Best American Short Stories 2000] Foreword, Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don’t, and What We Find There, Beacon, 1999 "Night Vision," New Yorker, February 16, 1998 "The Gates Are Closing," Zoetrope: All-Story, Spring 1998 "Take My Hand," New Yorker, July 16, 1996 "The Body Lies," New Yorker, July 18, 1994 "Hold Tight," Writer’s Harvest, 1994; The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 2002 "Bad Form," New Yorker, July 26, 1993 "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines," American Fiction, Summer 1993; Symphony Space Selected Shorts, 1994 "Semper Fidelis," Antaeus, Spring 1993; Prize Stories 1994: The O. Henry Awards "When the Year Grows Old," Story, Winter 1992 "The Sight of You," Story, Summer 1992 "Sleepwalking," River City, Fall 1991; The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women, 1995 "Silver Water," Story, Autumn 1991; Best American Short Stories 1992; Symphony Space Selected Shorts, 1993; The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 1999 "Love Is Not a Pie," Room of One’s Own, 1990; Best American Short Stories 1991; Mirabella, 1993

Interviews
	Writers on Writing: Trading Fiction's Comfort for a Chance to Look Life in the Eye Article by Amy Bloom, New York Times, November 18, 2002 http://www.aosoc.org/Webmistress_Choices/Trading%20Fiction

Amy Bloom - New York State Writers Institute [State University of New York] Interview from At Random Air Date: WMHT, Channel 17, Saturday, May 8, 1999, 6:00 p.m. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/bloom.html

Queries: A Word with Amy Bloom Article by Daniel Barrett for The Yale Review of Books, Summer 2002 http://www.yalereviewofbooks.com/people/birbaum73.html

Only Knowing People Intimately Tells You Who They Are Interview for the with Libby Garland, Face to Face National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, 2001 http://www.clal.org/ff002.html

Writing From the Heart But Drawing on the Mind Interview with Mervyn Rothstein, New York Times, August 21, 2000 [Archive]