Dana Goodyear (born 1976) is an American journalist and poet, the author of the forthcoming book ''Anything That Moves'', and the co-founder of Figment, an on-line literary community. She is a staff writer at ''

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'' and teaches in the Master of Professional Writing program at the

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Life and work

Goodyear graduated from

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in 1998, where she was Managing Editor of ''

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,'' and was hired by ''The New Yorker'' in 1999. She became a staff writer in 2007. In 2008, she was named a Japan Society Media Fellow, and spent six weeks in

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researching the emergence of the

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. Her story, "I ♥ Novels", was published in ''The New Yorker'' and collected in "The Best Technology Writing 2009". In 2005, Goodyear published "Honey and Junk", a collection of poems. Her second collection "The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard," was published by W.W. Norton in 2012. She is the author of "Anything that Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture. (Riverhead Books: 2013.) Goodyear's profile of

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was a finalist for a 2010

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. "Killer Food", about the chefs at Animal, a

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restaurant, was included in "The Best Food Writing 2010". Her reporting on Driscoll's strawberries was selected for "The Best American Food Writing 2018." She has twice been honored by the James Beard Foundation for food journalism. Goodyear lives in Los Angeles, and is the writer and host of the podcast "Lost Hills." Season 1, released in March 2021, chronicles the murder of Tristan Beaudette in Malibu Creek State Park.

Publications

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References

External links

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Figment
official website * "The Allure of the Underground: The rise of the secret supper club," Dana Goodyear, ''

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Toques from Underground
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