Dana Goodyear

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

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
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
  1. "Faculty Profile > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". University of Southern California. 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  2. "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.
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