Beth Saulnier

Elizabeth Bloom (; born 1969) is an American writer and editor.

Saulnier was born September 23, 1969, in North Adams, Massachusetts to Wilfred and Elizabeth Saulnier; her father taught history and her mother was a paralegal.

She received a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1990, after which she attended Cornell University. She lived in Ithaca for 12 years, during which time she worked with ''Cornell Magazine'' as a contributing editor, the ''Weill Cornell Medical College'' magazine as an editor, and ''The Ithaca Journal'' as a columnist. She received an Associated Press Award for her column "Saulnier on Cinema." She also cohosted the movie review show ''Take Two'' on Ithaca's Channel 13.

Saulnier published her debut novel, ''Reliable Sources'', with Grand Central Publishing in 1999. She went on to published ''Distemper'' (2000), ''The Fourth Wall'' (2001), ''Bad Seed'' (2002), and ''Ecstasy'' (2003). ''Distemper'' and ''The Fourth Wall'' was a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original in 2001 and 2002, respectively.

On August 10, 2003, Saulnier married David Andrew Bloom, after which she moved to New York City and focused her career on writing. She then published ''See Isabelle Run'' (2005) and ''The Mortician's Daughter'' (2006) under her married name, Elizabeth Bloom. Provided by Wikipedia