Bio

Gwen Goodkin is the author of the short story collection, A Place Remote, recipient of a Silver IPPY Award. She has won the Folio Editor's Prize for Fiction as well as the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Gwen was a featured writer in the New Short Fiction Series, performed in North Hollywood.

In 2022, Gwen won a mentorship with The Writer’s Lab, sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, for her TV Pilot script “The Plant.” Gwen’s novel, The Plant, was named a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel-in-Progress competition. She won the Silver Prize (Short Script) for her screenplay "Winnie" in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest. Her essay collection Mass for the Shut Ins was named a finalist for Eyewear Publishing's Beverly Prize.

Gwen has attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop Three-Week Summer Intensive Session, the Tin House Writer’s Workshop, the Community of Writers’ Fiction Workshop and the inaugural Bread Loaf Writing for the Screen Workshop. She has a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has also studied at the Universität Heidelberg. Gwen was born and raised in Ohio and now lives in Encinitas, California with her husband and daughters.