Dan­ny Good­man’s writ­ing has appeared in var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions, and he was the recip­i­ent of a writer-in-res­i­dence fel­low­ship from Riven­dell. He earned his MFA in Fic­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Orleans, where he was a two-time win­ner of the Samuel Mock­bee Award. He lives in the Hud­son Val­ley with his wife, a book edi­tor, and their edi­to­r­i­al cats. Amerika­land is his debut novel.