Richard Goodman's new book, A New York Memoir, has just been published. He is also the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France and The Soul of Creative Writing. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, Commonweal, Vanity Fair, AWP Writer's Chronicle, Saveur, Louisville Review, Ascent, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. He is a winner of a Hopwood Award for his fiction. He is a founding member of the New York Writers Workshop. His essay, "In Search of the Exact Word," appears in the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus. He wrote the Introduction for Travelers' Tales Provence. Richard Goodman teaches Creative Nonfiction at Spalding University’s Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky and at Pace University in New York City.