Anne Goldman's Kirkus-starred essay collection, Stargazing in the Atomic Age, was published in January 2021 with the University of Georgia Press. An earlier version of the titular essay was listed as notable in the Best American Essays 2007 and was nominated for a National Book Award. Goldman's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Georgia Review, the Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been cited as notable in the Best American Essays, the Best American Science and Nature Writing, and the Best American Travel Writing. Goldman has published three scholarly books: Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women, Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature, and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Sonoma State University and is working upon a novel as well as a second essay collection.
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