Goldie Goldbloom is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She is an LGBT activist working on behalf of queer Orthodox Jews, a former board member of Eshel and the creator of the blog, Frum Gay Girl, in which she interviews Orthodox LGBT Jews and their allies.
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 at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Goldbloom's work has been published in , , Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Le Monde and Story Quarterly, among other places. In 2015, her story "The Pilgrim's Way" was selected for inclusion in the Best Australian Short Stories. She was an early contributor to , and has written for NPR. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been selected for Keep Your Wives Away From Them, Inspired Journeys and over a dozen other anthologies. Her novel The Paperbark Shoe won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Fiction in 2008 and was placed on the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" list in 2018. The novel won the Literary Novel of the Year from the ForeWord Magazine in 2011. Goldie received a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award in 2010.In 2011, Goldbloom was the Chicago Reader’s Jewish Writer of the Year. In 2013, she spoke at the , run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement". Later the same year, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her novel, Gwen, was a finalist for the Aurealis Prize in fantasy fiction, the Most Underrated Book Award and the Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal in 2018. Goldbloom received a Brown Foundation Fellowship at in Menerbes, France in 2014 and won Hunger Mountain's National Nonfiction Award in the same year. In 2016, the City of Chicago awarded her an Individual Artist Grant and in 2017, Yaddo and Ragdale selected her for artist's residencies. Her third novel, On Division, was awarded the prize for 2020. It was also chosen as the selection for 2019-20.
