Laura Goode is the author of three books and a film, most recently Pitch Craft: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid. She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco. 

Laura Goode is the author of a collection of poems, Become a Name, and a YA novel, Sister Mischief, which was a Best of the Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and a selection of two ALA honor lists. With director Meera Menon, she wrote and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her nonfiction writing on intersectional feminism, female friendship, motherhood, gender, and race in culture, TV, film, and literature has appeared in BuzzFeed, New Republic, New York Magazine, Longreads, Elle, Catapult, Refinery29, and elsewhere. She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and currently teaches at Stanford University.

Laura Goode writes about intersectional feminism, female friendship, motherhood, gender, and race in culture, TV, film, and literature. She currently serves as Associate Director for Student Programs for thePublic Humanities Initiative at Stanford University, where she teaches in the English department and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. She also leads Stanford Public Humanities' flagship speaker series "What Is A Public Intellectual Today," and co-hosts the Clayman Institute for Gender Research’s podcast The Feminist Present. At Stanford's 2025 Commencement ceremony, she was recognized with the Walter J. Gores Award, the university's highest honor for excellence in teaching.

Her nonfiction craft book PITCH CRAFT: The Writer’s Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid is forthcoming September 16, 2025 from Ten Speed Press, a division of Penguin Random House, in fall 2025. Her nonfiction has appeared inBuzzFeed,ELLE,Catapult,Glamour,InStyle, Publishers Weekly,Longreads, The Cut,Refinery29, New Republic, and many otherpublications. Her nonfiction work has also received funding support from the 2018-2019Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University and the 2019 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College.

Her collection of poemsBECOME A NAME was released by Fathom Books in October 2016.

She co-wrote and produced the feature filmFARAH GOES BANG, which premiered at theTribeca Film Festival in April 2013, where it won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. FGB raised$81,160 on Kickstarter in 2012, and during its run at 18 other national and international film festivals, was honored with three Best Narrative Feature awards.

Her novel for young adultsSISTER MISCHIEF was released by Candlewick Press in 2011. The American Library Association included Sister Mischief in two of its annual honor lists: theAmelia Bloomer Project, recognizing excellence in feminist YA literature, and theRainbow List (Top Ten selection), recognizing excellence in GLBTQ YA. Sister Mischief was also a2012 Best of The Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Her cross-genre work has appeared in anthologies includingStarry Eyed: 16 Stories That Steal The Spotlight, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation, andSCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. She was raised in Edina, MN, received her BA and MFA from Columbia University, and lives in San Francisco.