She is a graduate of theological seminaries in Australia and the United States, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College.
Goldbloom's work has been published in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Le Monde and StoryQuarterly, among other places.
Her novel The Paperbark Shoe won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Fiction in 2008[6] and was placed on the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" list in 2018.
In 2013, she spoke at the International Forum on the Novel, run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement".
[16][17] Goldbloom received a Brown Foundation Fellowship at Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, in 2014 and won Hunger Mountain's National Nonfiction Award in the same year.