Eric Goodman
Profile
Eric Goodman is a graduate of both Yale and Stanford University, where he received an M.A. in Creative Writing.
He has published four novels: Child of My Right Hand, In Days of Awe, The First Time I Saw Jenny Hall, and High on the Energy Bridge. His fifth novel, Twelfth and Race, will be published on March 1, 2012 by the University of Nebraska Press, as part of the prestigious literary series, Flyover Fiction.
In 2009, Eric returned to his rock and roll roots and resumed writing songs with Kevin Kane. The lads—ha!—first worked together at Yale: Eric’s lyrics, Kevin’s music. That early collaboration culminated in The Good Fortune of Matthew Mann, a rock musical produced at Yale. Their current work has led to the Kevin Kane Band’s CD Saturday Night Coffee, as well as the band’s new EP, Get America Working. This music is available through the Kevin Kane Band website or directly through i-Tunes.
During his notorious Los Angeles years, Eric wrote episodic television scripts and feature-length screenplays, a practice he continues to this day. Other publications include short stories and more than 150 non-fiction pieces in national publications including Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Departures, Glamour, Life, and Buzz.
Goodman’s creative writing workshops, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, reflect his interest and experience in more than one genre. In addition, because he has lived and worked in Southeast Asia, he tries to maintain an international perspective in his approach to literature.
Goodman has won three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Awards. Other honors include extended residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts. He is married to Professor Susan Morgan, also of the English Department, with whom he has two lovely children. He is a life-long fan of the New York Mets.