James B. Goode

James B. Goode

Professor, poet, fictionist, filmmaker, and photographer James B. Goode is a Professor Emeritus of English on the faculty of Bluegrass Community & Technical College in Lexington, Kentucky. Goode holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky and a MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction from Murray State University. He served as visiting Professor of English at The University of Wales at Swansea, Changsha University in Hunan, China, and Maseno University in Kenya, Africa. He currently serves as Coordinator of the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky and as a mentor in the Carnegie Center’s Authors Academy. He is an award-winning author of seven books and has published numerous poems, short stories, and essays in magazines such as South Carolina Review, Huron Review, Ball State University Forum, The Journal of Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Heritage, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Pluck: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, and Kentucky Monthly. His most recent book Kentucky’s Twelve Days of Christmas is an anthology of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and songs by prominent Kentucky writers. His new book Kentucky’s Literary Landscape: The Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame 2013-2017 was released mid-summer of 2017.