Bloom is entertaining, wise and tolerant.
Her work has the power both to disturb and to console. Her work has appeared frequently in The New Yorker magazine Antaeus , Story , and Best American Short Stories . She is a contributing editor at New Woman and has published nonfiction work in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar . The twists of love Amy Bloom created a stir when her first book, Come to Me , a short-story collection, was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1993. We asked the author to describe what inspired her novel.