Dana Goodyear

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Dana Goodyear (born 1976) is an American journalist and poet, the author of the forthcoming book Anything That Moves, and the co-founder of Figment, an on-line literary community. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and teaches in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California.

Life and work[edit]

Goodyear graduated from Yale University in 1998, where she was Managing Editor of The New Journal, and was hired by The New Yorker in 1999.[1][2] She became a staff writer in 2007.[2] In 2008, she was named a Japan Society Media Fellow, and spent six weeks in Tokyo researching the emergence of the cell phone novel.[3] Her story, "I ♥ Novels", was published in The New Yorker and collected in "The Best Technology Writing 2009".[4][5]

In 2005, Goodyear published "Honey and Junk", a collection of poems.[6][7] Her second collection "The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard," was published by W.W. Norton in 2012.

She is the author of "Anything that Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture. (Riverhead Books: 2013.) [8]

Goodyear's profile of James Cameron was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award.[9] "Killer Food", about the chefs at Animal, a Los Angeles restaurant, was included in "The Best Food Writing 2010".[10] Her reporting on Driscoll's strawberries was selected for "The Best American Food Writing 2018."[11] She has twice been honored by the James Beard Foundation for food journalism.

Goodyear lives in Los Angeles, and is the writer and host of the podcast "Lost Hills."[12] Season 1, released in March 2021, chronicles the murder of Tristan Beaudette in Malibu Creek State Park.[13]

Publications[edit]

Main article: Dana Goodyear bibliography
  • Honey and junk. 2005.
  • Anything that moves : renegade chefs, fearless eaters, and the making of a new American food culture. 2013.
  • The oracle of Hollywood Boulevard : poems. 2013.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Faculty Profile > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". University of Southern California. 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  2. ^ a b "The New Yorker Contributors: Dana Goodyear". The New Yorker Magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Japan Society, New York - Recipients & Essays". Japan Society. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
  4. ^ Goodyear, Dana (22 December 2008). "Letter from Japan: I ♥ Novels". The New Yorker Magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  5. ^ Johnson, Steven. "The Best Technology Writing 2009". Yale University Press, 2009.
  6. ^ Goodyear, Dana. "Honey and Junk". W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
  7. ^ "BEST SELLERS - May 22, 2005". The New York Times. 22 May 2005. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  8. ^ Garner, Dwight (7 November 2013). "Marinated Snark is a Dish Best Served Cold". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Complete list of the 2010 National Magazine Awards Finalists". American Society of Magazine Editors. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  10. ^ Hughes, Holly. "Best Food Writing of 2010". Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2010.
  11. ^ The Best American Food Writing 2018. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2 October 2018.
  12. ^ "True Crime Podcast Series - Lost Hills Podcast - Pushkin Industries". 2 March 2021.
  13. ^ "New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear investigates Malibu campground murder in new true crime podcast 'Lost Hills'". 17 March 2021.

External links[edit]

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