Ester Bloom is an award-winning editorial professional with 20 years of experience working with words, people, and ideas. As a Strategic Communications consultant, she helps CEOs, founders, businesses, and nonprofits develop clear messaging so they can better tell stories and serve audiences.

Most recently, she was the Deputy Manager Editor of CNBC Make It. Previously, she served as Deputy Managing Editor of the educational website Grow (CNBC + Acorns); Senior Editor at CNBC Make It, where she helped design and launch the e-commerce initiative CNBC Select; an editor at The Billfold (an Awl network site); a Contributing Editor at the Barnes & Noble blog; and a Contributing Writer for The Atlantic. Through top NYC agencies such as Droga5 and Ideo, she has helped financial institutions better understand and serve women and millennials. 

In 2022, she was named a Future Digital Leader by the NBC News Group at its Editorial Talent Summit. In 2023, she received the Igniting Potential award in recognition of her work as a mentor and volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters NY.

She is also a celebrated writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, screenplays, advice columns, pop culture recaps and reviews, business news, and more. Her essays have been described as “near-perfect” and “beautifully told.” Joyland Magazine called her “your new favorite savagely funny and insightful author.”

She has won the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize and the Dogwood Literary Creative Non-Fiction Prize. One of her essays was the Creative Non-Fiction Magazine Editor’s Top Pick for the True Crime issue, 2012. Another was recognized as “Notable” in The Best American Essays 2015.

Among other venues, her work has appeared in Slate, Salon, Creative Non-Fiction magazine, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Flavorwire, Quartz, Joyland Magazine, PANK, Bite: An Anthology of Flash Fiction, and the Toast, for which she wrote the advice column Aunt Acid.

She has been interviewed on MSNBC, MTV.com, HuffPost Live, WPIX 11 Morning News, the Geraldo Rivera Show, Bitch Magazine’s Popaganda podcast, Vice’s The Business of Life, and Slate’s United States of Debt podcast.

Her fiction manuscript “A Moment of Your Time” was a Finalist in the International Launch Pad Competition, 2024. It’s currently being adapted for TV.

Contact: ester DOT bloom AT gmail, or through her agent Dean Krystek, Managing Director at WordLink.