Bio

Anne Goldman was born in Philadelphia and spent her growing up years in Montana, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. She is the author of the essay collection Stargazing in the Atomic Age (University of Georgia Press), named a Best Book of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews and awarded a silver medal in the essay category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2022. She has also published several critical books. Among them is Take My Word, which honors unsung working women of the twentieth-century who invented new forms of memoir writing to bring their stories into being. 

Goldman’s short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, the Guardian, the Georgia Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, VOLT, Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays are frequently cited as notable in editions of the Best American Essays as well as in the Best American Science and Nature Writing and the Best American Travel Writing. She is finishing up work on her second book of creative nonfiction, Aria for Insects and Other Essays.

After living for many years in California, Goldman now makes her home in Concord, Massachusetts.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

“Aria for Insects,” The Georgia Review (Spring 2024)

“Air Traffic,” Fourth Genre (Fall 2023)

"Half Here," Volt 26 (2022)

"Firefall," Wildsam Field Guides: Napa and Sonoma (2020)

"Darwin and Dickinson among the Heliotropes," The Georgia Review (Fall/Winter 2018)

"The Kingdom of the Medusae," Southwest Review (Spring 2016)

"Hurry Up Please," Tin House Open Bar (November 2015)

"Travels with Jane Eyre," Georgia Review (Fall 2014)

"Souvenirs of Stone," Southwest Review (Fall 2013)

“An Ode to Energy,” Southwest Review (Winter 2011)

“Wild Things,” The Pedestrian (Summer 2010) 

“Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante,” Georgia Review (Spring 2010)

“Double Vision,” Gettysburg Review (Summer 2009)

“Listening to Gershwin,” Georgia Review (Summer 2008)

“Soulful Modernism,” Southwest Review (Winter 2008)

“Reading Bellow,” Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2008) 
 

HONORS

Independent Publisher Award Silver Medal for the Essay 2022 (Stargazing in the Atomic Age)

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021 (Stargazing in the Atomic Age)

Pushcart Prize nominee 2019, 2012

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 "Notable Essay"("The Kingdom of the Medusae")

The Best American Travel Writing 2015 "Notable Essay" ("Travels with Jane Eyre")

"Stargazing in the Atomic Age" essay featured on the Georgia Review "Vault" 2014

Pushcart Prize XXXIV  2010 “Special Mention” (“Soulful Modernism”)

Magazine Association of the Southeast 2009, Best Essay, silver ("Listening to Gershwin")

National Magazine Awards 2007 nominee

The Best American Essays “Notable Essay”: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019

You can find Goldman’s CV here