AMY BLOOM

Amy Bloom (1953­– ) Amy Bloom’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Anateus, Story, Mirabella, Self, Vogue, and Talk, and in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. Born in New York City , she received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.S.W. from Smith College . She has published a novel, Love Invents Us (1996), and two collections of short stories. Come to Me (1993) was nominated for a National Book Award, and one of the stories, “Semper Fidelis,” won the O. Henry Award. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (2000) was nominated for the National Fiction Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction. Bloom, a practicing psychotherapist, is also the author of Normal : Transsexual CEO’s, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude. She currently lives in Connecticut .

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