Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France and The Soul of Creative Writing. He has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Harvard Review, Saveur, Commonweal, Creative Nonfiction, Louisville Review, Ascent, French Review, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. He teaches creative nonfiction at Spalding University's Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky.