Literary work
Laura Goode's debut young adult novel, Sister Mischief, was published by Candlewick Press in 2011. [5] The novel follows Esme, a Jewish lesbian teenager who forms a hip-hop group with her friends in the fictional town of Holyhill, Minnesota. Goode has cited her "love for young people" and her "frustration with the lack of strong literary role models for young women of all different cultural backgrounds and sexual identities" as motivations for writing the book. [6] Sister Mischief was a 2012 Best of the Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian , [7] a top 10 selection of the American Library Association's Rainbow List for excellence in GLBTQ YA literature, [8] and a selection of the ALA's Amelia Bloomer List for excellence in feminist YA literature. [9]
Goode's essays, poems, and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Bright Ideas Magazine (where she was a columnist and contributing editor), ELLE , Buzzfeed , Refinery29 , NewRepublic, New York Magazine , the Los Angeles Review of Books,Catapult, Glamour , InStyle , Publishers Weekly , Longreads, The Believer: Logger, Scratch, Vela, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, IndieWire, Dossier, and anthologies including Starry Eyed: 16 Stories That Steal The Spotlight, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation, and Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living.
Her collection of poems Become A Name was released by Fathom Books in October 2016. [10]
Her nonfiction craft book Pitch Craft: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid is forthcoming from Ten Speed Press, a division of Penguin Random House, in fall 2025.
Film
While an undergraduate at Columbia, Goode met and became friends with Meera Menon, who starred in a play Goode wrote. [11] Later, Goode and Menon co-wrote the feature film Farah Goes Bang , which Menon directed and Goode produced. [12] Farah Goes Bang premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, [13] where it was awarded the inaugural $25,000 Nora Ephron Prize by Tribeca and Vogue. [14] Farah Goes Bang also won the Comcast Narrative Competition at CAAMFest. [15] Goode designed and executed a Kickstarter campaign for the movie, which raised $81,160 for production of the film. [16] Farah Goes Bang's distribution was facilitated by Seed&Spark and released at retail in April 2015. [17]
Academic and public humanities work
Since 2019, Goode has served as associate director for Student Programs at the Public Humanities Initiative at Stanford University. In this role, she helped launch the flagship speaker series What Is a Public Intellectual Today, which has featured authors such as Jia Tolentino, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Alexander Chee, Anne Helen Petersen, Wesley Morris, and Maggie Nelson.
Goode is also the co-host of The Feminist Present, a podcast produced with Adrian Daub and supported by the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. [18] Guests have included Judith Butler, Angela Garbes, Melissa Febos, Jeanette Winterson, Merve Emre, Susan Stryker, Evette Dionne, and Cheryl Strayed.
From 2017 to 2023, Goode served on the board of directors for San Francisco Women Against Rape, a long-standing organization recognized for its rape crisis services and commitment to women of color leadership.
