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  <about><![CDATA[Richard Goodman is the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written for the New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Vanity Fair, The Writer's Chronicle, The Louisville Review, Saveur, Ascent, and the Michigan Quarterly Review, among others.  Richard Goodman is the Fine Presses Editor for Fine Books &amp; Collections Magazine, for which he writes a regular column.  He has taught writing in New York for many years, and is a founding member of the New York Writers Workshop.  He teaches Creative Nonfiction at Spalding University’s Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky.  ]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>        
  
  
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