Laura Goode is a novelist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter living in San Francisco. She produced the feature film FARAH GOES BANG, which she co-wrote with Meera Menon; FGB premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize. Her first novel for young adults, SISTER MISCHIEF, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011, and called a “Best Book You Haven’t Read of 2011” by Vanity Fair online, as well as a 2012 Best of the Bay pick by the SF Bay Guardian. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Millions, BOMB, The Rumpus, The New Inquiry, Boston Review, The Faster Times, Racialicious, Feministing, IndieWire, Denver Quarterly, Gigantic Sequins, Dossier, Fawlt, and others. Laura was raised outside Minneapolis and received her BA and MFA from Columbia University. @lauragoode / www.lauragoode.com