Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1967)
Jonathan Blum is an American writer.Background
Blum was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Miami, Florida and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
He graduated from UCLA and the . Since then, he has taught fiction writing at and the , and has published short stories, essays, poems, and a novella.Writing
Blum is the author of two books of fiction: a story collection, The Usual Uncertainties , named one of the best short story collections of 2019 by and a novella, Last Word, named one of the year's "best books to give as gifts" by Iowa Public Radio.
In November 2013, Last Word was an Editor's Pick at . Stephen Lovely in the called Last Word “a masterful finesse of unreliable narration.”
Blum's short stories have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, , New York Stories, Playboy, and Sonora Review.
Iowa Public Radio included The Usual Uncertainties on their list of best new fiction books for the winter of 2019.Awards
Blum has won the Michener-Copernicus Society of America literary award, the Playboy Magazine College Fiction Contest, a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship, and a Hawthornden fellowship.
The personal essay "May Be Habit Forming" was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2000, edited by Robert Atwan and Alan Lightman.
