Matt Bloom

A native New Yorker, Matthew Bloom has written three published novels: Blue Paradise (1998), A Death in the Hamptons (2002) and The Last Romantic (2005).

Matt has earned fellowships at The Sewanee Writers' Conference(1998), Breadloaf Writers' Conference(1999), and a residence at The MacDowell Artists' Colony(2003)


Matt has worked as a bartender in Manhattan, a migrant laborer in Australia, a landscaper and a truck driver. He has also done some amateur boxing.