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James R. Bottino (born 1968) is an American writer.

Biography
Trained as an English Teacher, Bottino taught at Saint Charles East High School (1992-1999), where he taught creative writing and honors-level English courses. While there, he authored the first published study on the use of the World Wide Web for the study of English. Shortly thereafter, he changed his career to follow his life-long hobby of Computer Science. He found work as the Manager and senior IT consultant at a small ISP, Internet Illinois, as a senior Systems Administrator at Motorola Laboratories, and an escalating series of positions in IT management at the software company Ex Libris.

Influences
Trained as a social worker, Bloom has practiced psychotherapy. Currently, Bloom is the Kim-Frank Family University Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University (effective July 1, 2010). Previously, she was a lecturer of Creative Writing in the department of English at Yale University, where she taught Advanced Fiction Writing and Writing for Children for the decade 2000-2010.

She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition to novels, Bloom has written articles in periodicals including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon.com. Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories and several other anthologies, and has won a National Magazine Award. In 2010, Amazon featured a page from a collection of Bloom's short stories in an ad showing the screen of a Kindle being read at the beach.

Although she is not a psychologist, her involvement with psychotherapy played a role in writing the Lifetime Television network TV show, State of Mind, which takes a look at the professional lives of psychiatrists. Bloom is listed as creator, a co-executive producer, and head writer for the series.

Bloom received her B.A. in Theater/Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Wesleyan University, and a M.S.W. (Masters of Social Work) from Smith College.

Bloom, who resides in Connecticut, has two daughters and a stepson from her first marriage to a man who was a professor. From the age of 13, she says, she knew she was bisexual, and after her first marriage ended, she lived with a woman for some time. She is now married to another man.

Fiction

 * The Canker Death (2010) (novel)
 * Tender Fields (1997) (poetry)
 * Beauty, Eh? (1987) (short story)

Non-fiction

 * World Wide Web Resources for English Studies (1997) (Research Paper)