Dan Bloom

Dan Bloom is a veteran journalist and subeditor currently working at the Taipei Times in Taiwan.23 With a career spanning nearly five decades, Bloom has extensive experience in the publishing and media industry.

Background and Education

Dan Bloom studied English Language and Literature at Tufts University in the 1960s.1 During his college years, he aspired to become either a novelist or a newspaper reporter.

Career Highlights

Early Career:: After graduating, Bloom began his journalism career in the 1970s, working for newspapers in New York and Washington DC as a copy editor, proofreader, and cartoonist.1

Alaska Years:: In 1979, Bloom moved to Alaska, where he worked for various newspapers. He served as the editor of "The Capital City Weekly" in Juneau, Alaska in the 1980s.1

International Experience::

• Worked in Tokyo for an English language expat newspaper for 5 years starting in 1991.1
• Moved to Taiwan in 1996 and has been working there since.1

Current Role:: Subeditor at Taipei Times since 1975, where he continues to work as a reporter, editor, and proofreader.23

Notable Contributions

In 2011, Dan Bloom coined the term "cli-fi," short for climate fiction, referring to the growing genre of fiction centered around climate change themes.1 He has since become a prominent promoter and theorist of this genre, maintaining a blog called The Cli-Fi Report to help academics and media professionals find cli-fi books.1

Dan Bloom's LinkedIn username is dan-bloom-32b47410, as mentioned in the query.