Discipline: Literature – fiction

Amy Bloom

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New Haven, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017

Author of two New York Times best-sellers and three collections of short stories, a children’s book, and a ground-breaking collection of essays. Amy Bloom 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, O Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.

She has written many pilot scripts, for cable and network, and she created, wrote and ran the excellent, short-lived series “State of Mind,” starring Lili Taylor. She lives in Connecticut and is now Wesleyan University’s Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing.

While in residence last she was working on her fourth novel.

Studios

Heyward

Amy Bloom worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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