Eric Goodman is the author of eight books, most recently Mother of Bourbon (2025), 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, a love story and literary baseball novel, and a sequel to his best-known novel, In Days of Awe (1991). Goodman has taught at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival for nearly 20 happy years. A graduate of the Stanford graduate creative writing program, he lives in Santa Rosa, CA and Mecklenburg, NY, with his wife, author Susan Morgan.