Lynn Z. Bloom

Biography: Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut, where she held the Aetna Chair of Writing 1988-2015. She learned from great writing teachers: Dr. Seuss, fun; Strunk and E.B. White, elegant simplicity; Benjamin Spock, precision: “If you don’t write clearly, someone could die,” he advised when she was writing Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. These precepts have informed the heart, soul, and human voice of her teaching and writing: Autobiography–Composition Studies as a Creative Art. Composition studies research, including Writers Without Borders; “The Essay Canon” and “Consuming Prose: The Delectable Rhetoric of Food Writing.” Creative nonfiction: The Seven Deadly Virtues; “Teaching College English as a Woman: and Recipe (forthcoming 2021). A shelf of textbooks. 200+ articles, essays, poetry. She has received awards from NEH, NCTE, USDA, and Fulbright.