In Conversation With… award-winning author Gwen Goodkin

Gwen Goodkin is the author of the short story collection, A Place Remote, winner of the Silver IPPY in Great Lakes - Best Regional Fiction. Her novel, The Plant, was named a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel-in-Progress competition, and her TV pilot script, "The Plant," based on that novel was named a quarterfinalist for Cinestory's TV/Digital retreat.

Gwen has won the Folio Editor's Prize for Fiction, the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, the Silver Prize (Short Script) for her screenplay "Winnie" in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest and the Eyewear Publishing's Beverly Prize for her essay collection "Mass for the Shut Ins." She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Gwen’s educational background includes a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and she has also studied at the Universität Heidelberg.

But it’s her many physical addresses that are tied to today’s talk. Gwen was born and raised in Ohio, then moved to Troy, Michigan, then L.A. and now lives in Encinitas, California with her husband and daughters.

For more about Gwen, visit her website and follow her on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium and Facebook.

In today’s conversation, we’ll discuss how the memories of home (both good and bad) work their way into our writing.