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Dana Goodyear    

Journalist and poet

Based in LA, Dana Goodyear writes for the New Yorker about food, culture, technology and ecology.

Dana Goodyear has been on staff at the New Yorker since 1999, where she has written about the archaeology of the Donner Party, the director James Cameron, a therapist who treats writer's block in Hollywood, and eating bugs. Her first book of nonfiction is Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture.

Goodyear teaches at USC and is the co-founder of Figment, an online literary community for people who love young-adult fiction. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, Honey and Junk and The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard.

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