Eric Goodman

Eric Goodman is the author of eight books, most recently Mother of Bourbon, his first historical novel, which tells the story of Mary Dowling, the only woman to own major bourbon distilleries in pre-Prohibition Kentucky. In 2024, he published Curveball, an LGBTQ+ love story and baseball novel, a sequel to his best-known novel In Days of Awe ((1991). For many years, Goodman directed the creative writing program at Miami University (Ohio) and taught workshops at the Iowa Summer Writers Festival. He lives in Santa Rosa, CA and Mecklenburg, NY, with his wife, author Susan Morgan.