STEPHEN G. BLOOM is an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times epi Dallas Morning News, and a professor of journalism at the University of Iowa. He is the author of seven nonfiction narrative books, including The Brazil Chronicles (University of Missouri), Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality (University of California Press), The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold (Regan Arts.), The Oxford Project (Welcome Books), Tears of Mermaids: The Secret Story of Pearls (St. Martin’s Press), and Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His articles have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Magazin New York Times, la Chikago Tribin, Jounal Washington Post, ak Gadyen an. In 2020, he was chosen by the Society of Professional Journalists as the university journalism professor of the year.