Stephen G. Bloom teaches journalism at the University of Iowa. He has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Sacramento Bee, and San Jose Mercury News. He is the author of "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America," published in 2000 by Harcourt, and "Inside the Writer’s Mind: Writing Narrative Journalism," released in 2002 by Blackwell Publishing.
