Goldie Goldbloom‘s novel, The Paperbark Shoe, won the AWP Award and Foreward Magazine‘s Book of the Year. Her short fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, and Story Quarterly, and in anthologies such as the Goldie Award winning Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires. Goldbloom is the recipient of a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and teaches in Northwestern University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. She lives in Chicago with her eight children.
Summer 2014
The Unwanted: Death and Decay in the Americas
Ten years after my mother died, I was told that she had never been buried, and I jumped the next plane to Australia to bury whatever remained of her.