Goldie Goldbloom grew up in Western Australia and now teaches in Chicago. A Chassidic mother of 8, she is also an LGBTQ activist. She has written three award-winning novels, The Paperbark Shoe, Gwen and On Division, as well as a collection of short stories, You Lose These. Goldie received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and her novel was selected for the NEA Big Reads list. Her essays and short stories have won many prizes and were published by Meanjin, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere. On Division won the Prix des Libraires for a book in translation