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Jonathan Blum

Jonathan Blum is the author of two books of fic­tion: LAST WORD (Res­cue Press, 2013), a novel­la, and THE USU­AL UNCER­TAIN­TIES: STO­RIES (Res­cue Press, 2019), a sto­ry col­lec­tion. Blum grew up in Mia­mi and grad­u­at­ed from UCLA and the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop. His short sto­ries have appeared in Angels Flight-lit­er­ary west, The Car­oli­na Quar­ter­ly, Gulf Coast, Keny­on Review, Play­boy, Sono­ra Review, Shanxi Lit­er­a­ture, among oth­ers. He has taught fic­tion writ­ing at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa, Drew Uni­ver­si­ty, and the Iowa Sum­mer Writ­ing Fes­ti­val, and is the recip­i­ent of a Mich­en­er-Coper­ni­cus Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca Award, a Hawthorn­den fel­low­ship in Scot­land, and a grant from the Helene Wurl­itzer Foun­da­tion. He has also been a guest writer at the Tian­jin Bin­hai New Area Inter­na­tion­al Writ­ing Pro­gram in Chi­na. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Jonathan Blum
November 25, 2019

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