C.V. 

Joanna Lynn Goodman

310 Chestnut Avenue

Narberth, PA 19072

joanna.goodman2@gmail.com

(917) 821-5341

Education   

• M.F.A. Creative Writing/Poetry. University of Iowa,Iowa City, IA.

• Certificate in Publishing.  Radcliffe Publishing Course, Cambridge, MA.

• B.A. Literature/Creative Writing.Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

Select Awards (see bottom of page for full list)

  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

• Iowa Poetry Prize: Book Publication  (see bottom of page)

• Discovery/The Nation Prizewinner     

• Featured Teaching Artist, The New York Times 

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Iowa           

Academic Teaching Experience

• •        2025. Founder and Tutor. Thrive Tutoring. Narberth, PA.

  •        2007-2012. Senior Lecturer/Division of Liberal Arts. University of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA

  • 2004-2007. Visiting Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing. Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA (three-year position)

  •   2002-2004. Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing. Pennsylvania State University
    at Altoona, Altoona, PA

  •   1996-2002. Instructor of English. City University of New York, NY, NY

  •   1996-1999. Instructor of English. Mercy College at St. Michael’s/Correctional Education
    Consortium, NY, NY (degree program for substance abusers and ex-convicts)

  •   1997. Instructor of English.  Pace University, NY, NY

  •   1997. Instructor of English. Mercy College, Bronx, NY

  •   1992-1994. Instructor of English. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Courses Taught

• Poetry Writing Workshop (Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced), Contemporary Poetry, Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (poetry, fiction, non-fiction), Introduction to Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction), Creative Non-fiction, Dramatic Literature, Reading Fiction, Special Topics: Literary Magazine, Western Civilization (Text & Contexts), Advanced Grammar for Writing, Honors Freshman Composition, Rhetoric and Composition, Intellectual Prose, Written English & Literary Studies, Introduction to Academic Writing, Introduction to Literature)

Other Teaching Experience

• March/April 2015-Present. Instructor of Creative Writing. Lifetime Arts/Free Library of
Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA (8-week course)

•     2003. Instructor of Poetry Writing. Ligonier Valley Writers Conference, Ligonier, PA  (weekend seminar)

• 2002. Instructor of Poetry Writing and Teaching.BEPT Teacher’s Consortium, Eastchester, NY. 

(Day-long course)

• 2002. Instructor of Poetry Writing and Teaching. Westchester Teachers’ Center, Hartsdale, NY (8- week course)

• 1998-2002. Instructor of Poetry Writing.  Dimensions Mental Health Center, New Rochelle, NY
(2 sessions per month)

• 1994. Instructor of Poetry. Elderhostel. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (month-long course)

• 1994-2002. Implemented state and privately funded interdisciplinary poetry and literature
programs in primary, middle, and high schools throughout Westchester County, NY

   Bronxville Middle and High School; Woodlands High School; The Hudson River Museum School; Trinity School;

   Jefferson School; New York School for the Deaf; Edgemont Central School District; Greenburgh Central School     District

Professional Writing Experience

• 2019-2025. Direct Marketing Copywriter. PPD (a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific).

Conceptualized, wrote, edited, and proofread digital campaign and website copy to recruit participants for investigational drug trials and research studies. Simplified complex content for general, diverse audiences. Adhered to client brand guidelines and ethics guidelines and regulations, customizing global copy according to country-specific regulations. Collaborated with designers, marketing leads, project managers, and others. Therapeutic areas: immunology, virology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, psychiatry, infectious diseases, congenital disorders.

Publications

• Book

 Trace of One (see Awards). Reviewed in: The Washington Times (April 13, 2003); Crossroads (Autumn 2003);
KLIATT: Reviews of Selected Books, Educational Software and Audio books 36 (5): 30-31 (2002)

• Poems in Journals

         “Sundowning. ”The American Poetry Review, Back cover. July/August 2013

“Teatime,” “Over Again I Feel Thy Finger and Find Thee,” “Plow Into,” “This,” “You Can’t Just Sit There, “Open Range. ”The American Poetry Review. March/April 2010

“First Sunday in Ordinary Time. ”Washington Square.  Summer 2008

“Beginning and Ending with a Birdcall,” “Were This a Wish with a Plea In It,” and “Hovering.” Kenyon Review. Spring 2008

      *“Beginning and Ending with a Birdcall” reprinted in “Poetry Daily”: http://www.poems.com/feature.php?date=13988

“Tell Me What To Do.”  Locus Suspectus. Winter 2008

         *Audio download to be available at http://www.lsmagazine.ca/

         “Prayer Ending on a Cloud of Unknowing. ”The Literary Review. Winter 2006

 “How My Head Feels On My Desk.” Ninth Letter. Fall/Winter 2005

 “What You Can Expect This Month.” American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. Fall 2005. Previously published in Trace of One

“Periphrasis with a Wing Beat” and “The Juniper Tree. ”Kenyon Review. Fall/Winter 2005

 “Our Daughter Plays Deer Hunting USA in the Holiday Inn Gameroom” and “Georgic: Tomatoes.” Arts & Letters. Fall 2005

 “Rounds: After Pascal.”The Georgia Review. Summer, 2005

“Why Air Holds Things” and “Red Dead-nettle.” Seneca Review. Fall 2004

“Landing Skid,” “Restorative,” “Poem Beginning with a Line by Balanchine, Ending with a Line by Purina.” Prairie Schooner. Spring 2004

*Reprinted in “Project Muse”: http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-

bin/access.cgi?urI=/journals/prairie_schooner/v078/78.1goodman.html

“Good Friday” and “Einstein and Gödel Walking Home.”Pool. Fall 2003 

“On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise.”  New Letters. Spring 2003

*Previously published in Trace of One (see above).

*Reprinted in “Verse Daily”: www.versedaily.org/aboutjoannagoodman.shtml

“Tebaide.”The Nation. May 2001

“The Succession of Parts,” “Coming up Violets,” “Piandell’Arca,” “This Is Joy,” “Take Aim,” “Examples of Use,” “Resuscitation,” “Benares,” “Home,” “The Trace of One,” “Beech Tree in March,” and “Falser Certainty.”  The Literary Review. Special Issue:  “Ten Poets Worth Knowing.” Introduction, “The Poetry of Joanna Goodman” by Eric Sellin. Fall 1999

“Coming of Age.”Tin House. Spring/Summer 1999

“Wave.”Phoebe. Fall 1998                

*Reprinted in the “Writer’s Corner,” National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.arts.gove/features/Writers/2002prose.html

*Reprinted in “Online Poetry Classroom,” The Academy of American Poets: http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poems/SearchResult.cfm?prmAlpha=W

*Reprinted in “Come Celebrate National Poetry Month with a Poem a Day”: http://flyingarts.net/ workshops/april02/7.html

“The Aftermath” and “Departure.”Fence. Spring 1998

“Watermark.”Sonora Review. Spring 1995

 “What Brought Them There.” Indiana Review. Fall 1994

“The Dry Spell.”Massachusetts Review. Spring 1994

• Translations of Poetry

“Perhaps My Mother,” “Test,” and “Self-Defense.”Translated with LuljetaLleshanaku, ShpresaQatipi, and UkzenelBuçpapa. In Fresco: Selected Poetry of LuljetaLleshanaku. Edited by Henry Israeli.New Directions. 2002 

“To Name” by TaharDjaout.Provincetown Arts Journal. 2001-2002

Twenty-two translations of poems by Algerian Francophone poets TaharDjaoutJeanSénac, HabibTengour, YoucefSebti, and AssiaDjebar.  The Literary Review.Winter1998  

*Two poems by HabibTengour reprinted in “Algeria.com”: http://www.algeria.com/forums/ showthread.php3?threadid=1574

“Poem to the Sun” by AssiaDjebar.World Literature Today.1995.

“I Slit the Neck of the Rooster” by AssiaDjebar. In Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.Edited by Alan F. Pater. Monitor Books. 1997

“Self-Defense” by LuljetaLleshanaku.  Translated with UkZenelBucpapa. Modern Poetry in Translation.Summer 1996.  *Reprinted in Fresco

“I Slit the Neck of the Rooster” and “A Country Without Memory” by AssiaDjebar.  Seneca Review. Fall 1995. *Reprinted in Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry

“Blue Sky” by AssiaDjebar. Denver Quarterly. Summer 1994

• Articles in Books and Journals

         “The Bed Project.”In AWP Pedagogy Papers.2004

         “Listening to the Accident.”In AWP Pedagogy Papers. 2003

 “L’écritet le cri: Giving Voice in AssiaDjebar’sL’amourla fantasia.”  InEdebiyât: A Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Spring 1995  

• Work-In-Progress

Untitled Poetry Manuscript.  Anticipated Finish Date: Fall 2025

Invited Readings    

• Winter 2012. Free Library of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA

• Spring 2008. St. Joseph’s College.  Patchogue, NY  

•      Spring 2006. Lake Forest College/Lake Forest Literary Festival.Mixed Media Collaboration.

         Lake Forest, IL

• Fall 2005. Georgia State College and University. Milledgeville, GA

• Spring 2005. Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster, PA

• Spring 2005. Bottleworks. Johnstown, PA

• Summer 2003. Kenyon College. Gambier, OH

• Summer 2003. Ligonier Valley Writers Workshop. Ligonier, PA

• Spring 2003. Barnes & Noble. State College, PA

• Spring 2003. Readings Between A & B. New York, NY

• Spring 2003. Webster’s Bookstore. State College, PA

• Fall 2002. Grolier Bookstore. Cambridge, MA

• Fall 2002. Atticus Bookstore. Amherst, MA

• Fall 2002. Penn State Altoona. Altoona, PA

• Fall 2002. Penn State University English Conference. State College, PA

• Spring 2002. Housing Works Used Books Café. New York, NY

• Spring 2002. Barnes & Noble. New York, NY

• Spring 2002. CCS Reading Series. New York, NY

• Spring 2001. The 92nd Street Y. New York, NY

• Spring 2000. Ear Inn. New York, NY

• Fall 2000. Halcyon. Brooklyn, NY

• Spring 1998. TransHudson Gallery. New York, NY

Selected Exhibits, Panels and Presentations

• 2007.  Tell Me What To Do (text and video).  Exhibited at: “FlashFlood: International Video Art Festival, ”The Museum for Polydimensional Research. August. Tucson, Arizona;"Loyal rooftops 2007,"Galerie Loyal. July.Kassel, Germany; “Sos-art.com Collective.”May.Paris, France; “Visions in the Nunnery,” The Nunnery Gallery. May-June. London, UK; and over “ARTRADIO,” Cornerhouse. Summer. Manchester, UK and Nicolasound Radio, Summer, Paris, France.

• 2006. Tell Me What Your Problem Is (text, audio, and video).Exhibited at “Out of Context,” Art Omi International Arts Center. June, Ghent, NY; and at “Wilderness Information Network,” a live radio broadcast in the woods and onsite downloads of mp3 files via Bluetooth technology. May-June, Upper Catskills, NY

• 2004. AWP Pedagogy Panel. Chicago, IL

2003. Coordinated poetry reading and discussion, American Society for Literature and the Environment. Boston, MA

2003. AWP Pedagogy Panel. Baltimore, MD

1999. Presenter. National Association of English Teachers’ Regional Meeting. Hartsdale, NY

1993. Panelist.“ Francophone Women on Women.” M/MLA. Minneapolis, MN

Honors and Awards (full list)

• 2008.  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship-Residency in Poetry

• 2005. Arts & Letters Prize for Poetry, Georgia State College and University

• 2003. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

• 2003. Taylor Fellow, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop

• 2002. Iowa Poetry Prize: book publication                 

• 2001. Discovery/The Nation Prizewinner

• 2000. Millay Colony for the Arts Residency in Poetry

• 2000. Charles Angoff Award, The Literary Review

• 1999. MacDowell Colony Fellowship-Residency in Poetry

• 1997. Featured Teaching Artist, The New York Times (Sunday, April 6)

• 1994. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Iowa