Ester Bloom is an award-winning writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, screenplays, advice columns, pop culture recaps and reviews, business news, and more. Her essays have been called “near-perfect” and “beautifully told.” Joyland Magazine called her “your new favorite savagely funny and insightful author.”

She has won the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize and the Dogwood Literary Creative Non-Fiction Prize. One of her essays was the Creative Non-Fiction Magazine Editor’s Top Pick for the True Crime issue, 2012; another was recognized in the “Notable” section of The Best American Essays 2015.

As a literary consultant, she worked with authors to complete manuscripts and to refine and place excerpts for publication.

As a financial consultant, through top NYC agencies such as Droga5 and Ideo, she helped major banks better understand and serve women and millennial consumers.

Among other venues, her work has appeared in Slate, Salon, Creative Non-Fiction magazine, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Flavorwire, Quartz, Joyland Magazine, PANK, Bite: An Anthology of Flash Fiction, and the Toast, for which she wrote the advice column Aunt Acid.

She has been interviewed on MSNBC, MTV.com, HuffPost Live, WPIX 11 Morning News, the Geraldo Rivera Show, Bitch Magazine’s Popaganda podcast, Vice’s The Business of Life, and Slate’s United States of Debt podcast.

Currently, she is the Deputy Manager Editor of CNBC Make It. Previously, she was the Deputy Managing Editor of the money website Grow (CNBC + Acorns); Senior Editor at CNBC Make It; an editor at The Billfold (an Awl network site); a Contributing Editor at the Barnes & Noble blog; and a Contributing Writer for The Atlantic.

Contact: ester DOT bloom AT gmail, or through her agent Dean Krystek, Managing Director at WordLink.