| Laura Goode | |
| Birth Date: | 25 November 1983 |
| Birth Place: | Edina, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Education: | Edina High School Columbia College (BA) Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA) |
| Notableworks: | Sister Mischief, Farah Goes Bang |
Laura Goode (born November 25, 1983) is an American author, novelist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, producer, and feminist. She is the author of the young adult novel Sister Mischief, the co-writer and producer of the feature film Farah Goes Bang, and writes the ANTIHEROINES column for Bright Ideas Magazine. She lives in San Francisco.
Goode was raised in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis–Saint Paul which provided the inspiration for Sister Mischief
Goode's first novel for young adults, Sister Mischief, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011.[4] The book centers around a Jewish lesbian teenager named Esme who starts a hip-hop group with her friends in the fictional town of Holyhill, Minnesota. Goode was inspired to write the book because of her "love for young people, and my frustration with the lack of strong literary role models for young women of all different cultural backgrounds and sexual identities."[5] Sister Mischief was a 2012 Best of the Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian,[6] a top 10 selection of the American Library Association's Rainbow List for excellence in GLBTQ YA literature,[7] and a selection of the ALA's Amelia Bloomer List for excellence in feminist YA literature.[8]
While an undergraduate at Columbia, Goode met and became friends with Meera Menon, who starred in a play Goode wrote.[9] Later, Goode and Menon co-wrote the feature film Farah Goes Bang, which Menon directed and Goode produced. Farah Goes Bang premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival,[10] where it was awarded the inaugural $25,000 Nora Ephron Prize by Tribeca and Vogue.[11] Farah Goes Bang also won the Comcast Narrative Competition at CAAMFest.[12] Goode designed and executed a Kickstarter campaign for the movie, which raised $81,160 for production of the film.[13] Farah Goes Bang
Goode's essays, poems, and fiction have appeared in Bright Ideas Magazine, where she is a columnist and contributing editor, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer: Logger, Scratch, Vela, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, BOMB, The Millions, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, IndieWire, Dossier, Fawlt, and anthologies including Starry Eyed: 16 Stories That Steal The Spotlight and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation.
Goode is married to Patrick Cushing, CEO of WorkHands. Their son Josiah was born in April 2014.