Lucienne Bloch

She was born in Belgium, raised in New York City, and graduated from Wellesley College. She worked at New Directions and Random House before marrying, soon having and then raising three children. She began writing fiction at the age of forty. Her first novel, On the Great-Circle Route, was published by Nan Talese at Simon & Schuster, and a second novel, Finders Keepers, at Houghton, Mifflin. She has been writing personal essays for the past 16 years, several of which have been published in Raritan, North American Review, Southwest Review, Five Points, and Sewanee Review. One was excerpted in Harper's. Another appeared on-line in Figlit.  Three were cited as Notable in Best American Essays, 2011, 2014, and 2018.  

Other credits include:

• "Hers" columns for The New York Times

• Resident Fellow at Yaddo

• A short story, chosen for the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, is anthologized in The Sound of Writing.

• Awarded a Fellowship in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts