Gwen Goodkin

Gwen Goodkin writes fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, teleplays and stage plays. Her short story collection, A Place Remote, is out now from West Virginia University Press. Her essay collection, Mass for the Shut Ins, was named a finalist for Eyewear Publishing's Beverly Prize. She has won the Folio Editor's Prize for Fiction as well as the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction.

Gwen’s novel, The Plant, was named a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel-in-Progress competition. Her TV pilot script, "The Plant," based on her own novel-in-progress was named a quarterfinalist for Cinestory's TV/Digital retreat. She won the Silver Prize (Short Script) for her screenplay "Winnie" in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest.

Gwen has a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has also studied at the Universität Heidelberg.