Laura Goode

Laura Goode is the author of three books: a nonfiction craft book, Pitch Craft: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid; of a collection of poems, Become a Name; and a YA novel, Sister Mischief, which was a Best of the Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and a selection of two ALA honor lists. With director Meera Menon, she wrote and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her nonfiction writing on intersectional feminism, female friendship, motherhood, gender, and race in culture, TV, film, and literature has appeared in BuzzFeed Reader, New Republic, New York Magazine, Longreads, Elle, Catapult, Refinery29, and elsewhere. She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and currently teaches in the Department of English and Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University, where she was honored with the 2025 Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford's highest honor for excellence in teaching.