Education
She earned an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, after graduating from two Jewish Theological Seminaries.
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Goldie Goldbloom
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Additionally, she is an LGBT activist working on behalf of queer Orthodox Jews. Goldbloom was born in Perth, Western Australia. She then began teaching in the Northwestern University Master of Fine Arts program
Goldbloom"s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Triquarterly, The Chicago Tribune, Le Monde and Story Quarterly, among other places.
She was an early contributor to G-dcast, and has written for National Public Radio. 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.
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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. She is a member of the Lubavitch chassidic community.
