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Template:Unreviewed Goldie Goldbloom Goldie Goldbloom (born October 3, 1964) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. Her novel The Paperbark Shoe won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Fiction in 2008. The novel also won Literary Novel of the Year from the Independent Publishers Association in 2011. Goldie also received a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award in 2010. Additionally, she is an LGBT activist working on behalf of queer Orthodox Jews. She is a former board member of Eshel and is the creator of the international blog, Frum Gay Girl, where she interviews Orthodox LGBT Jews and their allies.

Contents [hide] 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External links

Early life and education[edit] Goldbloom was born in Perth, Western Australia. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, after graduating from Bais Rivka and Ohel Chana Jewish Theological Seminaries. She is a member of the Lubavitch Chassidic community.

Career[edit] Goldbloom began writing fiction seriously in her forties, after the birth of her eight children, and in 2011, received the Simon Blattner Fellowship in Creative Writing and World Literature from Northwestern University, following the publication of her novel, The Paperbark Shoe. She then began teaching in the Northwestern University MFA program, and in 2013, was placed on the Associated Student Government’s Honor Roll for Excellence in Teaching. Goldbloom's work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Triquarterly, The Chicago Tribune and Story Quarterly, among other places. She was an early contributor to G-dcast, and has written for NPR. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have been selected for Keep Your Wives Away From Them, The Novelists’ Lexicon and other anthologies. In 2011, Goldbloom was the Chicago Reader’s Jewish Writer of the Year. In 2013, she spoke at the International Forum on the Novel, run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurment. Later the same year, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing.

Bibliography[edit] • (2011) You Lose These and other stories • (2009) The Paperbark Shoe (novel) – winner of the AWP Novel Award

References

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• Official website http://www.goldiegoldbloom.com/ • Washington Post Review of The Paperbark Shoe (2011) http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-05-25/entertainment/35232258_1_love-story-life-story-world-war-ii. • Chicago Tribune Interview with Goldie Goldbloom (2011) http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-0430-goldie-goldbloom-20110429,0,474752.story • Book Trailer for The Paperbark Shoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWFcRbtutkE • NPR review, http://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/136146206/three-dark-tales-that-serve-up-twisted-delights • A sample short story, “The Telephone of the Dead”, http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=telephone-dead Prairie Schooner (2011)*